I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Genealogy "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 Genealogy
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Genealogy Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Genealogy
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Genealogy "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genealogy
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Genealogy Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "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) Genealogy
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Genealogy Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Genealogy 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Genealogy
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Genealogy We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Genealogy
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Genealogy In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "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) Genealogy
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Genealogy "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Genealogy
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Genealogy "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Genealogy
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Genealogy To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Genealogy
