"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Barcelona Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Barcelona
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Barcelona "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Barcelona
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Barcelona If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Barcelona
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Barcelona The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Barcelona
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Barcelona I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Barcelona
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Barcelona Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Barcelona
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Barcelona This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Barcelona
"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) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "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) Barcelona A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Barcelona
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Barcelona "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Barcelona
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Barcelona "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Barcelona The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Barcelona
