Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) St Albans Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine St Albans
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" St Albans My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) St Albans
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis St Albans "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown St Albans
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "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) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan St Albans Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr St Albans
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 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller St Albans "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard St Albans
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud St Albans Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. St Albans
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi St Albans A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) St Albans
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous St Albans "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') St Albans
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "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) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) St Albans Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had St Albans
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) St Albans The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason St Albans
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous St Albans 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 greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl St Albans
