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If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Lincoln
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Lincoln To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 Lincoln
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Lincoln A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Lincoln
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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Lincoln Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lincoln
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Lincoln There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Lincoln
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "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) Lincoln People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lincoln
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lincoln "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Lincoln
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Lincoln 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 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Lincoln
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 Lincoln The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Lincoln
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Lincoln "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lincoln
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Lincoln "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lincoln
