A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf M Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations M
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 M Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers M
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) M "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and M
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e M blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler M
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril M There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James M
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous M The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt M
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton M Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along M
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov M To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli M
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) M I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 M
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown M Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words M
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp M He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet M
