It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Codicote No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Codicote
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Codicote He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Codicote
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Codicote "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Codicote
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Codicote "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Codicote
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Codicote Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Codicote
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Codicote "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Codicote
Man and wife make one fool. "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) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Codicote Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Codicote
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Codicote He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Codicote
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Codicote What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve May you never leave your marriage alive. Codicote
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 told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Codicote First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Codicote
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Codicote Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Codicote
