"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Localities I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Localities
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Localities Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Localities
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Localities I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Localities
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Localities "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Localities
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Localities Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Localities
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Localities Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Localities
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Localities I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Localities
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Localities This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Localities
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Localities 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Localities
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Localities "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Localities
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Localities Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Localities
