"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Engineering How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Engineering
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Engineering It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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-- Henry Ford 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Engineering
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Engineering "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Engineering
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Engineering Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Engineering
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Engineering What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Engineering
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Engineering America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Engineering
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Engineering Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Engineering
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Engineering Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Engineering
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Engineering A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Engineering
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Engineering A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Engineering
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Engineering Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Engineering
