Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Holidays The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Holidays
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Holidays In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Holidays
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Holidays My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Holidays
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Holidays Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Holidays
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Holidays Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Holidays
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Holidays Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Holidays
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Holidays Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Holidays
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Holidays The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Holidays
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Holidays Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Holidays
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Holidays "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Holidays
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Holidays Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Holidays
