"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves May you never leave your marriage alive. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Colleges and Universities I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Colleges and Universities
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Colleges and Universities More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Colleges and Universities
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Colleges and Universities Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Colleges and Universities
"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) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Colleges and Universities Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Colleges and Universities
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Colleges and Universities I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Colleges and Universities
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges and Universities Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Colleges and Universities
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Colleges and Universities Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Colleges and Universities
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Colleges and Universities To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Colleges and Universities
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Colleges and Universities Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Colleges and Universities
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Colleges and Universities One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Colleges and Universities
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Colleges and Universities "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Colleges and Universities
