The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 Essential Mix "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) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Essential Mix
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Essential Mix 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Essential Mix
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Essential Mix If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Essential Mix
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Essential Mix The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Essential Mix
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "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) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Essential Mix If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 "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) Essential Mix
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Essential Mix When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Essential Mix
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 Essential Mix He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Essential Mix
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Essential Mix People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Essential Mix
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Essential Mix A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Essential Mix
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Essential Mix Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Essential Mix
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Essential Mix I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Essential Mix
