Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Builders Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Builders
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Builders "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Builders
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Builders The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Builders
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Builders To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Builders
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Builders He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Builders
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Builders Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Builders
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "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) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Builders Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Builders
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Builders A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Builders
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Builders Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Builders
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Builders Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Builders
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Builders A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Builders
