We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Reunions and Alumni The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Reunions and Alumni
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Reunions and Alumni The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Reunions and Alumni
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Reunions and Alumni "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Reunions and Alumni
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "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) Reunions and Alumni I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Reunions and Alumni
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Reunions and Alumni There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Reunions and Alumni
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Reunions and Alumni I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Reunions and Alumni
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Reunions and Alumni To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Reunions and Alumni
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Reunions and Alumni Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Reunions and Alumni
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Reunions and Alumni "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Reunions and Alumni
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Reunions and Alumni If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Reunions and Alumni
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Reunions and Alumni Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Reunions and Alumni
