I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Guides and Directories A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Guides and Directories If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Guides and Directories
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Guides and Directories "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Guides and Directories
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guides and Directories The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Guides and Directories
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Guides and Directories
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Guides and Directories
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guides and Directories blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Guides and Directories "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Guides and Directories
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
