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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Rozhnyativ A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Rozhnyativ
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Rozhnyativ A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Rozhnyativ
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Rozhnyativ I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "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) Rozhnyativ
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Rozhnyativ 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. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Rozhnyativ
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rozhnyativ "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Rozhnyativ
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Rozhnyativ Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Rozhnyativ
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Rozhnyativ No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Rozhnyativ
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "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 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Rozhnyativ Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Rozhnyativ
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Rozhnyativ Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Rozhnyativ
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Rozhnyativ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "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 Rozhnyativ
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Rozhnyativ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Rozhnyativ
