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"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Government An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Government
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Government Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Government
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Government "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) May you never leave your marriage alive. Government
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Government Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Government
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Government Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Government
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Government I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Government
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Government "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Government
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Government I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Government
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Government "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Government The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Government
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. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Government What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Government
