"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. By County I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland By County
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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein By County Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill By County
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi By County The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward By County
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous By County "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau By County
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois By County Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken By County
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 County I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin By County
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) By County The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop By County
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p By County When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci By County
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) By County I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht By County
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) By County People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "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) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) By County
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer By County "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison By County
