Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Arts and Entertainment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Arts and Entertainment
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Arts and Entertainment No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Arts and Entertainment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Arts and Entertainment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Arts and Entertainment
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Arts and Entertainment
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Arts and Entertainment How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Arts and Entertainment "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Arts and Entertainment
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Arts and Entertainment
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Arts and Entertainment
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
