"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Pensions Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Pensions
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Pensions Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Pensions
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Pensions Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Pensions
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 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Pensions May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Pensions
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Pensions If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Pensions
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Pensions He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Pensions
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Pensions Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pensions
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Pensions "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Pensions
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Pensions When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Pensions
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Pensions If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Pensions
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Pensions In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Pensions
