"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the By Country of Location If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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 of Location
.. 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 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard By Country of Location There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By Country of Location
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno By Country of Location Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein By Country of Location
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Country of Location Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" By Country of Location
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 By Country of Location "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek By Country of Location
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine By Country of Location "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland By Country of Location
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne By Country of Location "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte By Country of Location
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By Country of Location 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 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne By Country of Location
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By Country of Location Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter By Country of Location
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein By Country of Location Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) By Country of Location
"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." Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President By Country of Location "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe By Country of Location
