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) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Oliveri Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Oliveri
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Oliveri "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Oliveri
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Oliveri This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Oliveri
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Oliveri "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Oliveri
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Oliveri We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Oliveri
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Oliveri blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Oliveri
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Oliveri blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Oliveri
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Oliveri Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Oliveri
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Oliveri Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Oliveri
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Oliveri If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Oliveri
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Oliveri Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Oliveri
