That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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 By County "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller By County
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford By County I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) By County
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. By County In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton By County
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone By County Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) By County
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) By County Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff By County
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) By County One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer By County
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death By County "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward By County
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford By County We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By County
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By County "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone By County
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins By County "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams By County
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill By County "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show By County
