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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld History Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) History
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived History Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) History
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde History "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) History
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford History If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke History
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen History I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford History
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton History How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley History
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live History That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West History
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) History LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain History
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th History The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) History
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) History I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) History
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) History Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin History
