The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Youth Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Youth
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Youth Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Youth
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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 Youth The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Youth
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Youth I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Youth
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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,
Youth He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Youth
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Youth Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 Youth
"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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Youth It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Youth
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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Youth Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Youth
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Youth "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Youth
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Youth "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Youth
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Youth Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Youth
