"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Television To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce Television If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Television
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Television He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Television
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Television Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Television
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Television Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Television
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Television A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Television
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Television You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Television
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Television "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Television
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "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 Television "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Television
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Television
