If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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.
H It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan H
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi H Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. H
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) H I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde H
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) H "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins H
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill H If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke H
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates H In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb H
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward H There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time H
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) H The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) H
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev H "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo H
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons H A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV H
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods H The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford H
