I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Government
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Government I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Government
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Government Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Government
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Government The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Government
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Government "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Government
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Government The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Government
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Government When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Government
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Government In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Government
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "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) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Government Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Government
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Government History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Government
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Government "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Government
