"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Regions I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Regions
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Regions A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Regions
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Regions "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Regions
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Regions Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Regions
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Regions "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Regions
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Regions 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 Nietzsche "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Regions
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Regions "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Regions
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Regions Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Regions
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Regions blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Regions
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Regions Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Regions
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Regions Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Regions
