"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince U I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous U "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) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt U
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) U In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one U
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor U Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine U
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland U Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a U
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill U I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) U
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 U "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. U
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx U blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "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 U
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) U To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) U
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha U The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. U
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) U Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed U
