A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Computers and Internet 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Computers and Internet
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Computers and Internet "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Computers and Internet
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Computers and Internet The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Computers and Internet
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Computers and Internet "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Computers and Internet
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Computers and Internet I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 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 Computers and Internet A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Computers and Internet
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Computers and Internet The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Computers and Internet
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Computers and Internet
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Computers and Internet 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Computers and Internet "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Computers and Internet
