"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Astronomy "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Astronomy
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Astronomy "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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, Astronomy
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Astronomy All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Astronomy
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Astronomy "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) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Astronomy
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "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) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Astronomy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Astronomy Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Astronomy
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Astronomy They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Astronomy
"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) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Astronomy Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Astronomy
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Astronomy The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Astronomy
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Astronomy "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Astronomy
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Astronomy Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Astronomy
