If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Taxi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Taxi
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Taxi This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Taxi
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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 Taxi "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Taxi
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Taxi I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Taxi
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Taxi A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Taxi
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Taxi "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Taxi
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Taxi Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Taxi
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Taxi "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Taxi
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Taxi "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Taxi
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Taxi He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Taxi
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Taxi 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." ( Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Taxi
