"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Politics Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Politics
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Politics And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Politics
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Politics You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Politics
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Politics "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Politics
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 Politics
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Politics If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Politics
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Politics "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Politics
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Politics "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Politics
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Politics
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Politics "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Politics
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Politics "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Politics
