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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Croston The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Croston
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Croston Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Croston
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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Croston Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Croston
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Croston Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Croston
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Croston If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Croston
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Croston Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Croston
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Croston "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Croston
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Croston The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Croston
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Croston Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Croston
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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Croston I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Croston
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Croston Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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) Croston
