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Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Music The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Music It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Music
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Music Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Music
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Music This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Music
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Music
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Music Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Music
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Music Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Music
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Music To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Music
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Music The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Music
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Music "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Music
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Music Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 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 Music
