A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Berkshire Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Berkshire
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Berkshire UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 Berkshire
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Berkshire He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Berkshire
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Berkshire If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Berkshire
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Berkshire Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Berkshire
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Berkshire "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Berkshire
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words 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 Berkshire "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Berkshire
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Berkshire The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Berkshire
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Berkshire Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Berkshire
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Berkshire Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Berkshire
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Berkshire Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Berkshire
