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I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Localities
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "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) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Localities
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Localities 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Localities
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Localities The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 Localities
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Localities
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Localities Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Localities
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Localities "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "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) Localities
"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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Localities I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Localities
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Localities "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Localities
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Localities
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "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) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Localities
