It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Localities Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Localities
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Localities Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Localities
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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "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) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Localities Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Localities
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Localities I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Localities
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Localities When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Localities
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Localities When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Localities
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Localities That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Localities
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Localities Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Localities
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Localities There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Localities
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Localities Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 Localities
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Localities A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Localities
