Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Y No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Y
"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 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Y 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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Y
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Y "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Y
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 Y 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Y
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Y 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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Y
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Y Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Y
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Y "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Y
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Y What's new? Most of my wife. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Y
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Y "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Y
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Y The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Y
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Y Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Y
