If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clogga When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Clogga
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Clogga My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Clogga
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Clogga Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Clogga
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Clogga The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Clogga
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Clogga The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Clogga
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Clogga If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clogga
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Clogga A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Clogga
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Clogga The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Clogga
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Clogga The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Clogga
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Clogga Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Clogga
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Clogga Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Clogga
