An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Localities In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Localities
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Localities Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Localities
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Localities
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Localities Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Localities
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker 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 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Localities "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Localities
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Localities People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Localities
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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) Localities Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Localities
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Localities "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Localities
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Localities "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Localities
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Localities
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Localities Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Localities
