Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) G Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain G
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous G "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain G
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 G War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau G
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "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." G I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and G
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence G Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little G
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) G "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago G
"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) "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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov G "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) G
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville G It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri G
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) G There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster G
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor G Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde G
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "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) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) G Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt G
