I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Landshut "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Landshut
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Landshut "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Landshut
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "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' "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Landshut Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Landshut
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Landshut "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Landshut
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Landshut If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Landshut
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Landshut Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Landshut
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Landshut The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Landshut
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Landshut His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Landshut
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "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 Landshut We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Landshut
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Landshut UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Landshut
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Landshut Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Landshut