But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words E "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) E
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous E That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx E
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels E Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) E
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) E English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker E
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) E
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show E What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor E
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy E Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey E
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that E In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty E
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe E "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ E
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith E Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos E
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain E A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll E
