The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Q Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Q
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Q If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Q
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Q
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Q "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Q
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Q "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Q
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Q
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Q Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Q
"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) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Q Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Q
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Q Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Q
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Q All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Q
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Q All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q
