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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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Eastleigh The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Eastleigh
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Eastleigh The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Eastleigh
"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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Eastleigh Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Eastleigh
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Eastleigh "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Eastleigh
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Eastleigh Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Eastleigh
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen What's new? Most of my wife. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Eastleigh And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Eastleigh
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "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) Eastleigh The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Eastleigh
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "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) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Eastleigh A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Eastleigh
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre May you never leave your marriage alive. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Eastleigh I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Eastleigh
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Eastleigh It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Eastleigh
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Eastleigh "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Eastleigh
