I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 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.
-- Family If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Family
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Family Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Family
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Family Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Family
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Family Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Family
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Family I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Family
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Family Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Family
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 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Family "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Family
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Family If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Family
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Family If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Family
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Family Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Family
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Family "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Family
