As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Government I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Government
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Government Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Government
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Government "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Government "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Government
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Government "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Government
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Government
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Government Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Government
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Government Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Government
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Government Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "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) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Government
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Government "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Government
