Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Government It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Government Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Government
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Government I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Government
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Government In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Government
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Government Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Government
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Government In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Government The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Government
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Government "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Government
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Government "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Government
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Government It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Government
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Government My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Government