It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita M "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli M
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb M Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov M
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations M 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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell M
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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali M I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim M
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. M "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) M
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken M He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer M
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler M When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton M
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words M "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) M
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "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, I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi M "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) M
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe M One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "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) M
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr 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 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire M "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu M
