blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Colleges and Universities When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Colleges and Universities
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Colleges and Universities We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Colleges and Universities
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Colleges and Universities I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Colleges and Universities
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Colleges and Universities The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges and Universities
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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges and Universities The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Colleges and Universities
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes 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 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Colleges and Universities Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Colleges and Universities
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Colleges and Universities The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Colleges and Universities
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons 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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Colleges and Universities Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Colleges and Universities
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Colleges and Universities Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Colleges and Universities
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Colleges and Universities Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Colleges and Universities
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Colleges and Universities People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Colleges and Universities
