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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Home and Garden 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 question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Home and Garden
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Home and Garden "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Home and Garden
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Home and Garden An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Home and Garden I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Home and Garden
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Home and Garden "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Home and Garden
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Home and Garden Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Home and Garden
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Home and Garden I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Home and Garden
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Home and Garden "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Home and Garden
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Home and Garden He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Home and Garden
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Home and Garden When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Home and Garden
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Home and Garden Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Home and Garden
