A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Santa Venerina All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Santa Venerina
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Santa Venerina Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Santa Venerina
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Santa Venerina "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Santa Venerina
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Santa Venerina I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Santa Venerina
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Santa Venerina "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Santa Venerina
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Santa Venerina I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Santa Venerina
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Santa Venerina Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Santa Venerina
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Santa Venerina It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Santa Venerina
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Santa Venerina We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Santa Venerina
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Santa Venerina Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Santa Venerina
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Santa Venerina Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Santa Venerina
