"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Caceres Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Caceres
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "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 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Caceres Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Caceres
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Caceres People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Caceres
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Caceres "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Caceres
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Caceres "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Caceres
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Caceres "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Caceres
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Caceres In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Caceres
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Caceres People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Caceres
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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Caceres He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 What's new? Most of my wife. Caceres
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Caceres Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Caceres
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Caceres If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Caceres
