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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Oxford Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Oxford
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Oxford Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Oxford
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Oxford The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Oxford
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Oxford "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Oxford
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Oxford I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Oxford
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Oxford A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Oxford
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Oxford Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Oxford
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Oxford "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Oxford
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Oxford "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Oxford
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Oxford Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Oxford
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Oxford The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Oxford
