The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Localities Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Localities
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Localities "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Localities
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 Localities A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Localities
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 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" Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Localities
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Localities
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Localities America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Localities
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Localities If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Localities
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Localities I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Localities You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Localities
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Localities Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Localities
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Localities "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) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
