Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Youth I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Youth
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov 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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Youth If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Youth
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Youth "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Youth
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Youth It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Youth
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Youth "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Youth
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Youth Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Youth
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Youth "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Youth
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Youth Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Youth
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Youth "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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.
-- Youth
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Youth To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Youth
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Youth "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Youth
