Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid Localities "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Localities
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Localities Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Localities
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Localities Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Localities
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Localities All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Localities
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Localities "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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Localities
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Localities 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Localities
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Localities There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Localities
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Localities It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Localities
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Localities "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Localities It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Localities If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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