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"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Language The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Language
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Language I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Language
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Language Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Language Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Language
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Language Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Language
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Language Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Language Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Language
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Language Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be 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 Language "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Language
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Language Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Language
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Language What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "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) Language
