"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Shostka Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Shostka
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Shostka Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Shostka
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Shostka >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Shostka
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Shostka Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Shostka
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Shostka Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Shostka
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Shostka Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Shostka
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Shostka Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Shostka
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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Shostka The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Shostka
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Shostka Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Shostka
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Shostka "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Shostka
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "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) Shostka "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Shostka
