I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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) 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 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Manchester If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Manchester
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Manchester Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Manchester
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Manchester He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Manchester
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Manchester "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Manchester
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Manchester "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) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Manchester
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "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) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Manchester I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Manchester
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Manchester Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manchester
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Manchester "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Manchester
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Manchester "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Manchester
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Manchester A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Manchester
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Manchester The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Manchester
