Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Nysa A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Nysa
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Nysa Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Nysa
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Nysa In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Nysa
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Nysa I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Nysa
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Nysa Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Nysa
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Nysa The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Nysa
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Nysa Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Nysa
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Nysa How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Nysa
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "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) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Nysa "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Nysa
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Nysa I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nysa
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Nysa It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nysa
