"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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 Printing The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Printing
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Printing Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Printing
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Printing "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Printing
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Printing Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Printing
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Printing Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Printing
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Printing The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Printing
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Printing Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Printing
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Printing One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Printing
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Printing Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 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 Printing
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Printing The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Printing
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Printing The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Printing
