Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Tinos The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tinos
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Tinos "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Tinos
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Tinos When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Tinos
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Tinos I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tinos
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Tinos If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tinos
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Tinos People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Tinos
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Tinos "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Tinos
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Tinos It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Tinos
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tinos "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Tinos
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Tinos Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Tinos
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Tinos Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tinos
