Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Colleges and Universities Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) 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 Colleges and Universities
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Colleges and Universities
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Colleges and Universities "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Colleges and Universities
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Colleges and Universities The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Colleges and Universities
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Colleges and Universities "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Colleges and Universities
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Colleges and Universities
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Colleges and Universities "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Colleges and Universities
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Colleges and Universities Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Colleges and Universities
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Colleges and Universities "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Colleges and Universities
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Colleges and Universities The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Colleges and Universities
