We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Engineering blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Engineering
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Engineering If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Engineering
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "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') Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Engineering Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Engineering
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Engineering Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Engineering
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Engineering They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Engineering
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Engineering "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Engineering
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Engineering We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Engineering
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Engineering "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Engineering
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Engineering "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Engineering
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Engineering If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "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 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Engineering
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Engineering Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Engineering
