If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What's new? Most of my wife. Bruff LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Bruff
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Bruff As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Bruff
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Bruff "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Bruff
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Bruff If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Bruff
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Bruff "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Bruff
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Bruff "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Bruff
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Bruff There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Bruff
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Bruff Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Bruff
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Bruff The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Bruff
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Bruff For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Bruff
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Bruff Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Bruff
