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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Rathkeale "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Rathkeale
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Rathkeale It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Rathkeale
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Rathkeale I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Rathkeale
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rathkeale "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Rathkeale
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rathkeale The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Rathkeale
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Rathkeale Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Rathkeale
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Rathkeale I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Rathkeale
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Rathkeale "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Rathkeale
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rathkeale The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Rathkeale
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rathkeale blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Rathkeale
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Rathkeale "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Rathkeale
