Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Sarny Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Sarny
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Sarny Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Sarny
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Sarny blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sarny
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sarny Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Sarny
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Sarny Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sarny
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Sarny I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Sarny
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Sarny Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Sarny
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Sarny If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Sarny
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Sarny He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Sarny
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Sarny America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Sarny
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Sarny Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Sarny
