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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Localities
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Localities A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Localities
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Localities Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Localities
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Localities Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Localities
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Localities Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Localities
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Localities There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Localities "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Localities
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Localities Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Localities
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Localities I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 Localities
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Localities
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Localities Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Localities
