Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) E A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers E
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman E 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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein E
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) 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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. E If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. E
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. E All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller E
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) E May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin E
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson E Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar E
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) E A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) E
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen E A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce E
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "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 secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville E A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou E
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown E Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) E
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle E Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. E
