I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Home and Garden As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Home and Garden
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Home and Garden "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Home and Garden The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Home and Garden
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Home and Garden The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Home and Garden
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Home and Garden Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Home and Garden
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Home and Garden Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Home and Garden
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Home and Garden "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Home and Garden
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Home and Garden We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Home and Garden
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Home and Garden I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Home and Garden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 Home and Garden Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Home and Garden
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Home and Garden As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Home and Garden
