"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Education Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Education
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Education
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Education "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Education Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Education
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Education "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) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Education
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) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Education
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Education 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 "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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education "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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education
