You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Golf 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Golf
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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Golf
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Golf Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Golf
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Golf "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Golf
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Golf "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Golf
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Golf And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golf
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Golf There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Golf
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Golf Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Golf
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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,
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Golf "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Golf
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Golf Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Golf
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Golf You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Golf
