"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Property Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Property
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Property I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Property
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Property "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Property
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Property Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Property
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Property Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Property
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Property In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Property
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Property My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Property
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Property He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Property "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Property
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Property
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Property What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Property
