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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Personal Pages I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "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 Personal Pages "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Personal Pages
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Personal Pages Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Personal Pages
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Personal Pages Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Personal Pages
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Personal Pages We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 Personal Pages
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Personal Pages "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Personal Pages
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Personal Pages "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Personal Pages
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Personal Pages "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Personal Pages
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Personal Pages "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Personal Pages
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Personal Pages The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Personal Pages
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Personal Pages We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
