The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Union Hall Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck 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 Union Hall
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Union Hall If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Union Hall
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "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) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Union Hall But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Union Hall
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Union Hall The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Union Hall
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Union Hall If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Union Hall
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Union Hall I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Union Hall
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Union Hall A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Union Hall
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Union Hall The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Union Hall
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Union Hall To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "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) Union Hall
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Union Hall "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Union Hall
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Union Hall There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Union Hall
