Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Regions "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Regions
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Regions We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Regions
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Regions The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Regions
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Regions Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Regions
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Regions You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Regions
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Regions The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Regions
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Regions Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Regions
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Regions Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Regions Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Regions
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Regions "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "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) Regions
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Regions "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Regions
