He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Provinces "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Provinces
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Provinces One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Provinces
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "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." "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Provinces "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Provinces
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Provinces He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Provinces
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Provinces If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Provinces
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Provinces When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Provinces
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Provinces Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Provinces
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Provinces The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Provinces
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Provinces 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Provinces
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Provinces Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Provinces
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Provinces Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Provinces
