"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( 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 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 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Prefectures Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Prefectures
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Prefectures This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 Prefectures
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Prefectures If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Prefectures
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Prefectures "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Prefectures
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Prefectures "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Prefectures
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Prefectures blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Prefectures
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Prefectures "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Prefectures
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Prefectures Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Prefectures
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Prefectures If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Prefectures
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Prefectures "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Prefectures
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Prefectures A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Prefectures
