The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury A Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 A Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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