Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West By Region
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) By Region 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli By Region
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward By Region The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) By Region
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill By Region
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) By Region Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands By Region
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana By Region "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr By Region
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams By Region "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Region A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) By Region
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) By Region UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen By Region
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell By Region "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley By Region
