Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Cheekpoint The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Cheekpoint
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen What's new? Most of my wife. Cheekpoint "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Cheekpoint
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Cheekpoint Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Cheekpoint
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Cheekpoint Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Cheekpoint
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Cheekpoint Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Cheekpoint
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Cheekpoint When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Cheekpoint
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Cheekpoint Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Cheekpoint
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Cheekpoint Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Cheekpoint
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Cheekpoint The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Cheekpoint
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) Cheekpoint Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Cheekpoint
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Cheekpoint When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Cheekpoint
