"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics P "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story P
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. P "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi P
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 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi P A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton P
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal P Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. P
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn P When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) P
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke P Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali P
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde P 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 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings P
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein P Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly P
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) P The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson P
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex P How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower P
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt P Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) P
