Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Aisne Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Aisne
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Aisne "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Aisne
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Aisne Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Aisne
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Aisne "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Aisne
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Aisne Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Aisne
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Aisne If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Aisne
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Aisne Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Aisne
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Aisne We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aisne
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Aisne Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Aisne
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Aisne I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Aisne
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Aisne "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Aisne
