A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Tatarbunary Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Tatarbunary
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Tatarbunary Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Tatarbunary
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Tatarbunary "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.) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Tatarbunary
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Tatarbunary Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Tatarbunary
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 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Tatarbunary Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Tatarbunary
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Tatarbunary What's new? Most of my wife. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Tatarbunary
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Tatarbunary "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Tatarbunary
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Tatarbunary Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Tatarbunary
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Tatarbunary I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Tatarbunary
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Tatarbunary Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Tatarbunary
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Tatarbunary What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tatarbunary
