Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Historical "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Historical
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Historical For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Historical
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Historical Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Historical
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Historical "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Historical
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Historical "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Historical
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Historical "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Historical
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Historical "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "... 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) Historical
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Historical America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Historical
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Historical You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Historical
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Historical I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Historical
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Historical "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Historical
