Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Viagrande An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Viagrande
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Viagrande Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Viagrande
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Viagrande Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Viagrande
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Viagrande Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Viagrande
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Viagrande Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Viagrande
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Viagrande Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Viagrande
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Viagrande Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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.
-- If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Viagrande
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Viagrande For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Viagrande
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Viagrande Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Viagrande
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Viagrande "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Viagrande
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Viagrande He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Viagrande
