We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Cats For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Cats
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Cats The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Cats
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cats Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cats
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Cats To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cats
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Cats Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cats
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Cats However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Cats
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Cats To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Cats
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Cats For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Cats
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Cats Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Cats
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Cats Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Cats
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Cats He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cats
