When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) P "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler P
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce P My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) P Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 P
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy P Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau P
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! P If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald P
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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) P The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson P
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere P "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 P
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is a rest period between romances. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig P Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen P
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 P I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw P "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain P Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. P
