Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Government "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Government
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Government Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Government
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 Government
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Government Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Government I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Government
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Government I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Government
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Government Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Government "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Government
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Government
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Government Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Government
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.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Government He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Government
