"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Academia We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Academia
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Academia "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Academia
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Academia "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Academia
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Academia Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Academia
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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Academia "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Academia
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Academia Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Academia
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 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Academia I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Academia
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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Academia Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Academia
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Academia "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Academia
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Academia Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Academia
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. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Academia We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Academia
