And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Cavan Town Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Cavan Town
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Cavan Town I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Cavan Town
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Cavan Town "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Cavan Town
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Cavan Town In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cavan Town
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Cavan Town Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Cavan Town
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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Cavan Town My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cavan Town
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Cavan Town You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Cavan Town
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Cavan Town Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Cavan Town
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cavan Town Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Cavan Town
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 Cavan Town Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cavan Town
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Cavan Town Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Cavan Town
