Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 M If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland M
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. M No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau M
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) M "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. M
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "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) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis M Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie M
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 M The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) M
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost M When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein M
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George M That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle M
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) M The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein M
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty M We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne M
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner M Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais M
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) M Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht M
