Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bleiswijk If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Bleiswijk
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bleiswijk I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Bleiswijk
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Bleiswijk If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Bleiswijk
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Bleiswijk Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Bleiswijk
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Bleiswijk Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Bleiswijk
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Bleiswijk People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bleiswijk
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Bleiswijk "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Bleiswijk
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Bleiswijk "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Bleiswijk
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Bleiswijk Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Bleiswijk
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bleiswijk I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Bleiswijk
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Bleiswijk We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Bleiswijk
