"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little Localities When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Localities
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Localities The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Localities
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Localities
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Localities Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Localities
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Localities "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Localities
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Localities And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Localities
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Localities I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Localities
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Localities Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Localities
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Localities A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Localities Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Localities
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Localities "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "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 Localities
