I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Irthlingborough The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Irthlingborough
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Irthlingborough Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Irthlingborough
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Irthlingborough In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irthlingborough
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Irthlingborough In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Man and wife make one fool. Irthlingborough
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Irthlingborough I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Irthlingborough
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Irthlingborough I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Irthlingborough
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Irthlingborough Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Irthlingborough
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Irthlingborough It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Irthlingborough
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Irthlingborough The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Irthlingborough
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 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Irthlingborough A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 Irthlingborough
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Irthlingborough Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Irthlingborough
