A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Y the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Y
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Y Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Y
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Y Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Y
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Y We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Y
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Y In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Y
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Y 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 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Y
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Y "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Y
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Y "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Y
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Y The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Y
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Y Marriage is a rest period between romances. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Y
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "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) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Y "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Y
