"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday R Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison R
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) R "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo R
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 R "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber R
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) R When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D R
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back R Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. R
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 R In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) R
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell R I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor R
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle R Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) R
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) R Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos R
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain R Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words R
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) R The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde R
