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"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I
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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I
