"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Localities
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Localities Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Localities
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Localities "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Localities
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Localities Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Localities
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Localities If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Localities
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Localities Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha 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 Localities
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Localities Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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) Localities
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Localities Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Localities
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Localities Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Localities Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Localities
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Localities Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Localities
