"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Chess If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Chess
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Chess "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Chess
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's new? Most of my wife. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Chess We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Chess
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Chess Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Chess
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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Chess Anyway, 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,
ign During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Chess
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Chess To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Chess
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Chess The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Chess
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Chess "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Chess
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Chess Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Chess
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Chess Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Chess
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Chess Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Chess
