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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Bramford "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Bramford
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Bramford Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Bramford
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Bramford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Bramford
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Bramford Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Bramford
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Bramford Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bramford
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Bramford Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Bramford
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Bramford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Bramford
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Bramford The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Bramford
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Bramford "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Bramford
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Bramford The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Bramford
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Bramford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Bramford
