History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) S Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. S
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from S
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 S Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) S
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda S Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning S
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) S "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) S
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) S Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill S
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen S 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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) S
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe S "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." 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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr S
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh S An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) S
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. S I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait S
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi S Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S
