"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) .. 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 "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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Burgdorf We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Burgdorf
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Burgdorf "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Burgdorf
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Burgdorf For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Burgdorf
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Burgdorf In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Burgdorf
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Burgdorf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Burgdorf
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Burgdorf "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Burgdorf
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 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Burgdorf If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Burgdorf
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Burgdorf I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. 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 Burgdorf
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "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." "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Burgdorf If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Burgdorf
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Burgdorf "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Burgdorf
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Burgdorf Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Burgdorf
