"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Belmont "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Belmont
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "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) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Belmont Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Belmont
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Belmont Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Belmont
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Belmont The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Belmont
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Belmont Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Belmont
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Belmont Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Belmont
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Belmont Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Belmont
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Belmont With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Belmont
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Belmont Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Belmont
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Belmont There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Belmont
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Belmont I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Belmont
