The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Zwanenburg When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Zwanenburg
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Zwanenburg I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zwanenburg
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Zwanenburg Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work 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 Zwanenburg
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Zwanenburg There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Zwanenburg
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Zwanenburg Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Zwanenburg
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Zwanenburg Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Zwanenburg
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Zwanenburg Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Zwanenburg
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Zwanenburg "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Zwanenburg
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Zwanenburg You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Zwanenburg
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Zwanenburg Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Zwanenburg
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Zwanenburg Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Zwanenburg
