When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Health Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Health
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Health Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Health
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Health Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Health
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Health He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Health
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Health "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Health
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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 Health The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Health
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Health "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Health
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Health Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Health Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Health
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Health History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Health
