Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) To keep your marriage brimming
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Personal Pages "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Personal Pages
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Personal Pages The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Personal Pages I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 Personal Pages They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Personal Pages
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Personal Pages Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Personal Pages
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "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) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Personal Pages I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Personal Pages
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Personal Pages If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Personal Pages
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "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) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Personal Pages
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Personal Pages "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Personal Pages
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Personal Pages A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Personal Pages
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Personal Pages True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Personal Pages
