"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Complementary and Alternative "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Complementary and Alternative
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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Complementary and Alternative Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Complementary and Alternative
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Complementary and Alternative They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Complementary and Alternative
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Complementary and Alternative "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Complementary and Alternative
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Complementary and Alternative You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Complementary and Alternative
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Complementary and Alternative "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Complementary and Alternative
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Complementary and Alternative I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Complementary and Alternative
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Complementary and Alternative However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Complementary and Alternative
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Complementary and Alternative A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Complementary and Alternative
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "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) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Complementary and Alternative The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Complementary and Alternative
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Complementary and Alternative In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Complementary and Alternative
