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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Brasted A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Brasted
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. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Brasted And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Brasted
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Brasted A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Brasted
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 Brasted "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Brasted
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Brasted "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Brasted
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Brasted "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Brasted
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Brasted Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Brasted
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Brasted I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Brasted
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Brasted "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Brasted
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Brasted The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Brasted
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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Brasted 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, "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Brasted
