Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Historic Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Historic
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Historic For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Historic
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Historic The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Historic
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Historic Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Historic
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Historic Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Historic
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "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) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Historic Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Historic
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Historic "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "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) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Historic
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Historic This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Historic
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Historic Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Historic
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Historic Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Historic
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Historic One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Historic
