That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Skadovsk Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Skadovsk
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Skadovsk All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Skadovsk
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Skadovsk "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Skadovsk
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Skadovsk "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Skadovsk
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Skadovsk "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Skadovsk
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Skadovsk Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Skadovsk
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Skadovsk Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Skadovsk
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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" The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Skadovsk I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Skadovsk
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "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-) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Skadovsk You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Skadovsk
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Skadovsk "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Skadovsk
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "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) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Skadovsk Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Skadovsk
