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What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Steventon Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Steventon
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Steventon We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Steventon
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Steventon A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Steventon
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Steventon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Steventon
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Steventon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Steventon
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Steventon 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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Steventon
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Steventon Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Steventon
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Steventon 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Steventon
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Steventon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Steventon
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Steventon Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Steventon
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Steventon If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "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) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Steventon
