A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Hertford blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Hertford
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Hertford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Hertford
"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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Hertford And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Hertford
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Hertford 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Hertford
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Hertford Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Hertford
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Hertford Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Hertford
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Hertford The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 Hertford
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Hertford A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Hertford
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Hertford Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Hertford
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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Hertford "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Hertford
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Hertford 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Hertford
