Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Clarecastle Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Clarecastle
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Clarecastle "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Clarecastle
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Clarecastle Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Clarecastle
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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Clarecastle "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Clarecastle
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Clarecastle May you never leave your marriage alive. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clarecastle
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 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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 Clarecastle Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clarecastle
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Clarecastle 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Clarecastle
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Clarecastle "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Clarecastle
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Clarecastle He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Clarecastle
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clarecastle 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Clarecastle
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Clarecastle The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Clarecastle
