Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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) I
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I 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 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I
