They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Localities People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Localities
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Localities What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Localities
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Localities Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Localities
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Localities If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "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) Localities
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Localities "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen 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 Localities Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Localities
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Localities Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Localities
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager 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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Localities Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Localities
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Localities "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Localities
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Localities Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Localities
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Localities Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
