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"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) F "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins F
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley F An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast F
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin F Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley F
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde F Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "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) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey F
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) F Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw F
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell F Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover F
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) F "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh F
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine 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 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery F "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard F
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla F 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb F
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) F It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain F
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce F If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 F
