"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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 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 That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Directories "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Directories
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Directories There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Directories
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Directories I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Directories
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Directories "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Directories
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Directories Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Directories
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Directories Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Directories
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 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Directories "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Directories
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Directories Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Directories
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Directories "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Directories
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Directories "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Directories
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Directories The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 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.
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