"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Education A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Education Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
"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) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Education LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Education
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Education
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Education A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Education
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Education A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton 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 Education
