"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham T "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom T
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle T It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 T
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde T The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... T
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song T Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell T
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." T
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per T "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti T
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France T Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 T
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and T God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe T
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) T "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason T
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. T If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West T
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton T I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat T
