A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) W In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) W
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. W "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin W
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 W Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie W
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe W "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves W
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner My other wife is beautiful. 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 W I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken W
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt W If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln W
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov W Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) W
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) W Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz W
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair W Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller W
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. W It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh W
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain W "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali W
