People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Provinces One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Provinces
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Provinces There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Provinces
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Provinces Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Provinces
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Provinces "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Provinces
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Provinces Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Provinces
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Provinces "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Provinces
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Provinces I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Provinces Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Provinces
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Provinces If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Provinces
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Provinces "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Provinces
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Provinces He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Provinces
