"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Suprasl A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Suprasl
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Suprasl We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Suprasl
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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Suprasl Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Suprasl
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Suprasl Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Suprasl
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Suprasl The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "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 Suprasl
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Suprasl "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Suprasl
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Suprasl "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Suprasl
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Suprasl Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Suprasl
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Suprasl You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 Suprasl
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Suprasl I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Suprasl
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Suprasl Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Suprasl
