When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Isles of Scilly Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Isles of Scilly
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Isles of Scilly "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Isles of Scilly
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Isles of Scilly Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Isles of Scilly
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 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 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Isles of Scilly I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Isles of Scilly
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Isles of Scilly A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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.
-- Winston Churchill Isles of Scilly I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Isles of Scilly
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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Isles of Scilly If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Isles of Scilly
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Isles of Scilly "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 Isles of Scilly
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Isles of Scilly If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Isles of Scilly
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Isles of Scilly Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Isles of Scilly
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Isles of Scilly Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Isles of Scilly
