Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Twente There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Twente
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Twente When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Twente
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Twente If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Twente
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Twente A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Twente
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Twente The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Twente
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Twente "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Twente
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Twente "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Twente
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Twente Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Twente
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." ( You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Twente The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Twente
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Twente Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Twente
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Twente "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Twente
