When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey J I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler J
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin J Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli J
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY J "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) J
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau J Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous J
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett J The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison J
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth J Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln J
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless J Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) J
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire J Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) J
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) J Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) J
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w J Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe J
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) J 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen J
