A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes 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 Localities Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Localities
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Localities 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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package 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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Localities If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Localities What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Localities
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Localities "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Localities
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Localities
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Localities
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Localities When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Localities "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Localities
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Localities "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen 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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Localities Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Localities
