People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Riposto In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Riposto
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 "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) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Riposto Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Riposto
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Riposto The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Riposto
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Riposto Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Riposto
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Riposto Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Riposto
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Riposto "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Riposto
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Riposto Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Riposto
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Riposto Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Riposto
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Riposto Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Riposto
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Riposto Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Riposto
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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Riposto Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Riposto
