Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Prescot 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 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Prescot
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Prescot Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Prescot
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Prescot In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Prescot
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prescot There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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? Prescot
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Prescot It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Prescot
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Prescot Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Prescot
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Prescot The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Prescot
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Prescot Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Prescot
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Prescot Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Prescot
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 Prescot Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Prescot
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Prescot A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Prescot
