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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Industrial blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Industrial
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Industrial When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Industrial
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Industrial In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Industrial
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Industrial 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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Industrial
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "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) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Industrial If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Industrial
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 Industrial "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) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Industrial
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Industrial "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Industrial
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Industrial Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Industrial
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 Industrial A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Industrial
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Industrial The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Industrial
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Industrial Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Industrial
