Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "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) O "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton O
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) O Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married O
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous O The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov O
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald O You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël O
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright O To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor O
"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) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac O "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx O
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov O We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder O
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) O Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald O
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal O If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley O
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri O If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings O
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual O Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. O
