Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Photography My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Photography
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Photography "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Photography
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Photography The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Photography
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Photography "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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Photography
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Photography "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Photography
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Photography It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Photography
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Photography History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Photography
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Photography A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman What's new? Most of my wife. Photography
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Photography "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Photography
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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. Photography Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Photography
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Photography I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Photography
