I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Bitburg Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Bitburg
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Bitburg With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Bitburg
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Bitburg When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Bitburg
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Bitburg Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Bitburg
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Bitburg Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Bitburg
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Bitburg He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Bitburg
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Bitburg Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Bitburg
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Bitburg "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Bitburg
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Bitburg Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Bitburg
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bitburg Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Bitburg
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Bitburg Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Bitburg
