Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Y I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Y
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Y Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Y
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Y Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Y
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Y The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Y
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "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) Y Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Y
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Y Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Y
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "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 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 Y It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Y
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Y LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Y
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Y Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Y
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Y Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Y
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Y Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Y
