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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Desford The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Desford
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Desford Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Desford
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Desford Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Desford
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Desford If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Desford
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Desford The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Desford
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Desford "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Desford
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Desford The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Desford
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Desford "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Desford
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Desford There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Desford
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Desford 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Desford
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Desford The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Desford
