Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Parts and Supplies I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Parts and Supplies
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Parts and Supplies "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Parts and Supplies
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Parts and Supplies "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parts and Supplies
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Parts and Supplies The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parts and Supplies
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Parts and Supplies "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Parts and Supplies
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Parts and Supplies If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Parts and Supplies
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Parts and Supplies Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Parts and Supplies
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Parts and Supplies "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Parts and Supplies
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parts and Supplies I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Parts and Supplies
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parts and Supplies "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) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Parts and Supplies
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Parts and Supplies We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Parts and Supplies
