I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous By Region Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin By Region
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius By Region This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By Region All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u By Region
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright By Region That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may By Region
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago By Region Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 By Region
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 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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, Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun By Region Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin By Region
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. By Region The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed By Region
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 By Region "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 By Region
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) By Region 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) By Region
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz By Region "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher By Region
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt By Region The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) 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 By Region
