"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I
