The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt V "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik V
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw V Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) V
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell V The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous V
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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx V Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA V
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov V Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday V
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid V The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) V
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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live V Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the V
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 V Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) V
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer V I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer V
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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 V Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I V
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith V All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") V
