The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Auschwitz-Birkenau For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Auschwitz-Birkenau
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Auschwitz-Birkenau "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Auschwitz-Birkenau
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Auschwitz-Birkenau When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Auschwitz-Birkenau
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Auschwitz-Birkenau I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Auschwitz-Birkenau
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Auschwitz-Birkenau If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Auschwitz-Birkenau
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Auschwitz-Birkenau "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Auschwitz-Birkenau
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 Auschwitz-Birkenau The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Auschwitz-Birkenau
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Auschwitz-Birkenau To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Auschwitz-Birkenau
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Auschwitz-Birkenau The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Auschwitz-Birkenau
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Auschwitz-Birkenau People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Auschwitz-Birkenau
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Auschwitz-Birkenau He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Auschwitz-Birkenau
