Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George X "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa X
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will X "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke X
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster 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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly X We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) X
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol X "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) X
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) X "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) X
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman X If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) X
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous X There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde X
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger X In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) X
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "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) X I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly X
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes X Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning X
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt X Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde X
