Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Wittenberg Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Wittenberg
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Wittenberg Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Wittenberg
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Wittenberg 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 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wittenberg
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Wittenberg "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Wittenberg
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Wittenberg Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Wittenberg
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Wittenberg There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Wittenberg
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Wittenberg Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Wittenberg
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Wittenberg "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Wittenberg
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Wittenberg The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Wittenberg
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Wittenberg In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Wittenberg
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Wittenberg Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Wittenberg
