A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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, If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Kercem A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Kercem
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Kercem And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Kercem
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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 Kercem Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Kercem
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Kercem "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Kercem
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Kercem Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kercem
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Kercem "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Kercem
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Kercem I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Kercem
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Kercem Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Kercem
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Kercem The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Kercem
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Kercem I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "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) 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 Kercem
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Kercem We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Kercem
