He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Tromode I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Tromode
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Tromode I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Tromode
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Tromode "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Tromode
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Tromode The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Tromode
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George 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 Tromode The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Tromode
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Tromode Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Tromode
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Tromode "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Tromode
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Tromode I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Tromode
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Tromode "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Tromode
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Tromode If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Tromode
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Tromode Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Tromode
