At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Localities Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Localities
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Localities "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Localities
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Localities Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Localities
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Localities What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Localities
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Localities Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Localities
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Localities "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Localities
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Localities
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Localities "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Localities
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Localities
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Localities I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Localities
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Localities They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Localities
