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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Law Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Law
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Law "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Law
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Law Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Law
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Law Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Law
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Law "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Law
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Law "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Law
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Law "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Law
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Law Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Law
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Law I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Law
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Law Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Law
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Law Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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