"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arlesey Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Arlesey
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 "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) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arlesey I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arlesey
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Arlesey Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Arlesey
"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) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Arlesey Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Arlesey
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Arlesey Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 Arlesey
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arlesey Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Arlesey
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Arlesey How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Arlesey
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arlesey "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arlesey
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Arlesey Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Arlesey
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Arlesey Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Arlesey
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Arlesey Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Arlesey
