I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher By County "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard By County
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde By County "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little By County
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar By County My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb By County
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner 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 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper By County "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) By County
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson By County Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) By County
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano By County Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) By County
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart By County Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) By County
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) By County 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) By County
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 By County Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) By County
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) By County The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 By County
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) By County "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By County
