"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. S "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch S
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie S "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President S
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. S "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) S
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin S No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall S
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) S Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford S
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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) S Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth S
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) S May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer S
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine S "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford S
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller S To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton S
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) S When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S
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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler S There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) S
