It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Languages "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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.
-- Languages
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Languages "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Languages
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Languages Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Languages
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Languages "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Languages
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Languages blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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.
-- Languages
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Languages It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Languages
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Languages If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Languages
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Languages It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Languages
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Languages Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Languages
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Languages Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Languages
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Languages Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Languages
