Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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 your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Horncastle Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows 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 Horncastle
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Horncastle 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Horncastle
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Horncastle A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Horncastle
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 Horncastle There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Horncastle
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Horncastle "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Horncastle
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Horncastle "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Horncastle
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Horncastle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Horncastle
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Horncastle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Horncastle
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Horncastle Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Horncastle
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Horncastle Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Horncastle
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Horncastle If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Horncastle
