Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') By Region In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By Region
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell By Region Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) By Region
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening By Region "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley By Region
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill By Region I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale By Region
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge By Region Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover By Region
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper By Region I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin By Region
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford By Region Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. By Region
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker By Region In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac By Region
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers By Region "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By Region
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) By Region My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 By Region
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff By Region There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill By Region
