"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" P To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and P
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) P To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth P
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe P Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman P
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein P It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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. P
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all P The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric P
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl P The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words P
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw P Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence P
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland P A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe P
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw P Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein P
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. P The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman P
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw P Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire P
