Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rathmore "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Rathmore
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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Rathmore In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Rathmore
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Rathmore "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Rathmore
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Rathmore If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Rathmore
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Rathmore The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rathmore
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Rathmore Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rathmore
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Rathmore I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Rathmore
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Rathmore I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Rathmore
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rathmore "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Rathmore
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Rathmore The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Rathmore
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Rathmore Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Rathmore
