In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Czarnkow Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Czarnkow
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Czarnkow Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Czarnkow
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Czarnkow "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Czarnkow
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Czarnkow I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Czarnkow
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Czarnkow The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Czarnkow
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Czarnkow "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Czarnkow
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Czarnkow Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Czarnkow
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Czarnkow A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Czarnkow
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Czarnkow An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Czarnkow
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Czarnkow The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Czarnkow
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Czarnkow "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Czarnkow
