"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Writing and Literature In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Writing and Literature
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Writing and Literature Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Writing and Literature
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Writing and Literature Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Writing and Literature
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Writing and Literature It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Writing and Literature
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Writing and Literature By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Writing and Literature
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Writing and Literature "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Writing and Literature
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Writing and Literature Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Writing and Literature
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Writing and Literature "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Writing and Literature
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Writing and Literature Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Writing and Literature
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Writing and Literature Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Writing and Literature
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Writing and Literature Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Writing and Literature
