MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Glenbeigh The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Glenbeigh
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Glenbeigh When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Glenbeigh
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glenbeigh "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Glenbeigh
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Glenbeigh Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Glenbeigh
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Glenbeigh Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Glenbeigh
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Glenbeigh "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Glenbeigh
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Glenbeigh He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Glenbeigh
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Glenbeigh I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Glenbeigh
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Glenbeigh The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Glenbeigh
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Glenbeigh "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Glenbeigh
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Glenbeigh 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 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Glenbeigh
