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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford N Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) N
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac N "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius N
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) N Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) N
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower N [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe N
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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "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 crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli N A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley N
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II N Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton N
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 N A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner N
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein N "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. N
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) N He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) N
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 N Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel N
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James N The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson N
