Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Residential Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Residential
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Residential Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Residential
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Residential "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Residential
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Residential blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Residential
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Residential A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Residential
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Residential I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Residential
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Residential I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Residential
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Residential Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Residential
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Residential "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Residential
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Residential Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Residential
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Residential Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Residential
