The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 V The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner V
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin V I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton V
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw V Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks V
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "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) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words V Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna V
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward V "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard V
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) V Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings V
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine V The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, V
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye V Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. V
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? V Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) V
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol V Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson V
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner V Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran V
