The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Crete 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, "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Crete
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Crete Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Crete
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is a rest period between romances. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Crete Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Crete "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Crete
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Crete Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Crete
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Crete Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Crete
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Crete Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Crete
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Crete I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev My other wife is beautiful. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Crete
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Crete May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Crete
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Crete "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) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Crete
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Crete I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Crete
