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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Serres "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Serres
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Serres Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Serres
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Serres Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Serres
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Serres I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Serres
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Serres The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Serres
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Serres Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Serres
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Serres "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Serres
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Serres I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Serres
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Serres Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Serres
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "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 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Serres Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Serres
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Serres "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Serres
