Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Y "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Y
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Y Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Y
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Y I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 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 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Y
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Y No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Y
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Y I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Y
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Y The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Y
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Y One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Y
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "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." I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Y The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Y
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Y The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Y
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Y "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Y
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Y Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Y
