My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Colleges and Universities "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) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Colleges and Universities
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Colleges and Universities Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Colleges and Universities
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Colleges and Universities 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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Colleges and Universities
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Colleges and Universities My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Colleges and Universities
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Colleges and Universities University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Colleges and Universities
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) "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) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges and Universities I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Colleges and Universities
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Colleges and Universities "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Colleges and Universities
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Colleges and Universities One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Colleges and Universities
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Colleges and Universities blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Colleges and Universities
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Colleges and Universities Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Colleges and Universities
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Colleges and Universities 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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Colleges and Universities
