A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Valmiera Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Valmiera
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Valmiera We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Valmiera
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Valmiera "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Valmiera
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Valmiera A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Valmiera
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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Valmiera The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Valmiera
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Valmiera The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Valmiera
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Valmiera Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Valmiera
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Valmiera The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Valmiera
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Valmiera The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Valmiera
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Valmiera "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Valmiera
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Valmiera If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Valmiera
