"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Photos "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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Photos
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Photos Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Photos
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Photos My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "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) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Photos
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Photos Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Photos
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Photos The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Photos
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Photos The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Photos
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Photos No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Photos
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Photos May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Photos
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Photos After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Photos
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Photos The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Photos
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Photos Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Photos
