The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "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, Alice in Wonderland Nurseries The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Nurseries
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Nurseries Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Nurseries
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Nurseries You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Nurseries
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 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Nurseries "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Nurseries
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Nurseries "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Nurseries
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Nurseries "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Nurseries
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board My other wife is beautiful. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Nurseries I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Nurseries
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Nurseries Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Nurseries
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Nurseries In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Nurseries
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Nurseries All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Nurseries
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Nurseries 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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Nurseries
