History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Great Tey It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Great Tey
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Great Tey A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Great Tey
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 Great Tey Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Great Tey
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Great Tey When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great Tey
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Great Tey He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Great Tey
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Great Tey Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Great Tey
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Great Tey "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Great Tey
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Great Tey "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Great Tey
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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Great Tey One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Great Tey
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Great Tey "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Great Tey
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Great Tey Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Great Tey
