Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Nord Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Nord
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nord Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nord
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Nord All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Nord
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Nord "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Nord
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Nord Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Nord
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Nord If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Nord
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Nord "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Nord
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nord Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Nord
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Nord "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Nord
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nord "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Nord
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nord If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Nord
