If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Charity People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Charity
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Charity You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Charity
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "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) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Charity The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Charity
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 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 Charity The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Charity
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Charity Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Charity
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Charity "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Charity
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Charity It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Charity
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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Charity Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Charity
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Charity Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "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) Charity
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Charity Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Charity
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Charity While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Charity
