There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student News and Media Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron News and Media
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 News and Media "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon News and Media
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity News and Media
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran News and Media "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells News and Media
"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 even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald News and Media People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung News and Media
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette News and Media Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence News and Media
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers News and Media To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry News and Media Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald News and Media
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper News and Media I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual News and Media
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes News and Media You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman News and Media
