blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin T Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr T
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo T Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette T
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." T A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody T
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley T We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers T
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) T Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca T
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous T There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford T
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland T I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) T
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton T "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein T
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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands T If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 T
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon T I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) T
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi T All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager T
