There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Health With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Health
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 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Health
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Health "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Health I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "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) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Health
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Health I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Health
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Health Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Health
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Health
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Health 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" Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 Health
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol 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.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Health
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Health "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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Health
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Health Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Health
