What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Music "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Music
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Music To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Music
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Music An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Music
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Music In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "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 Music
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Music The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Music
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Music Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Music
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Music "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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Music "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Music Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Music
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Music Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Music
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Music And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Music
