The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan D Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song D
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita D Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi D
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou D Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry D
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will D Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert D
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) D "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) D
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud D We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford D
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) D "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) D
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) 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 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi D Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce D
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson D Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) D
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) D Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) D
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln D A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber D
