If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Culture If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Culture
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Culture The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Culture
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Culture Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Culture
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Culture
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Culture
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Culture Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler 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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Culture A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Culture
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Culture If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Culture
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Culture Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Culture
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Culture Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Culture
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "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 Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "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) Culture
