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.
-- It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Personal Homepages "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Personal Homepages
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- Harry Truman The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Personal Homepages
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Personal Homepages "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Homepages
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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- unknown Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Personal Homepages He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Personal Homepages
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Personal Homepages A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Personal Homepages
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Personal Homepages Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Personal Homepages
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Personal Homepages The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Personal Homepages The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Personal Homepages
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Personal Homepages "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Personal Homepages
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Personal Homepages Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Personal Homepages
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Personal Homepages I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Personal Homepages
