Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) G "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern G
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen G A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers G
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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work G If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer G
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana G
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) G Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 G
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "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.) G My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery G
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 G 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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 G
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf G "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) G
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau G "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm G
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung G "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway G
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi G 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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