Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and E In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn E
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) E The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw E
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor E Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin E
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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil E 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince E
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain E Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) E
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James E Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud E
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese E I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth E
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson E blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) E
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William E I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein E
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley E We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? E
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig E Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) E
