"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Government Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Government
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Government
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Government Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Government
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Government Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Government
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Government Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Government
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Government Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Government
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Government Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "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) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Government
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Government "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Government
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Government Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Government
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Government No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Government
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Government My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Government
