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"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Fence 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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Fence
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Fence We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Fence
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 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Fence He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Fence
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Fence More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Fence
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fence "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Fence
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Fence Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Fence
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Fence I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Fence
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Fence The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Fence
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Fence Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Fence
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Fence Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Fence
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fence "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Fence
