They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) By Country "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) By Country
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf By Country If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Country
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard By Country Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous By Country
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) By Country "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 By Country
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 By Country Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 By Country
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) By Country To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken By Country
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") By Country Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. By Country
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) By Country Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx By Country
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson By Country For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire By Country
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm By Country Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 By Country
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan By Country "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l By Country
