The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Religion
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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Religion The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Religion
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Religion Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Religion
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Religion The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Religion
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Religion Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Religion
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Religion If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Religion
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Religion The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Religion
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Religion "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Religion
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 Religion If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Religion
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Religion Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Religion
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Religion I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Religion
