Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop F "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli F
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils F He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "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) F
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous F Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms F
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) F "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous F
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis F Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) F
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) F Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work F
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi F Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain F
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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" To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin F The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen F
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe F 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. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
F
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken F There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "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) F
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 F We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) F
