May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Society and Culture
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Society and Culture
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Society and Culture Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Society and Culture
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Society and Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Society and Culture 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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture
