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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Burneston "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Burneston
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Burneston The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Burneston
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Burneston If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Burneston
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Burneston "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Burneston
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Burneston Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "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) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Burneston
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Burneston It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Burneston
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Burneston If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Burneston
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost 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 Burneston Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Burneston
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Burneston If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Burneston
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Burneston cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Burneston
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Burneston The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Burneston
