'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) By County
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 By County For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 By County
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) By County "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude By County
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier By County There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy By County
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) By County Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf By County
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based By County "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, By County
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life By County To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) By County
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) By County "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein By County
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau By County "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie By County
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) By County "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl By County
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur By County The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) By County
