Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Geographical Areas Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Geographical Areas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Geographical Areas 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 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Geographical Areas
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Geographical Areas Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Geographical Areas
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Geographical Areas What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Geographical Areas
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Geographical Areas If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Geographical Areas
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Geographical Areas Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Geographical Areas
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Geographical Areas The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Geographical Areas
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Geographical Areas "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Geographical Areas
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Geographical Areas The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Geographical Areas
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Geographical Areas The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Geographical Areas
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Geographical Areas A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Geographical Areas
