Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Arco Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Arco
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Arco The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Arco
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arco We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Arco
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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.
-- Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Arco Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arco
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arco 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 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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Arco
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Arco "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Arco
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Arco If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Arco
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Arco Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Arco
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Arco MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Arco
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arco "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Arco
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Arco "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Arco
