blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence By Region To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. By Region
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By Region The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle By Region
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. By Region If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( By Region
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) By Region If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 By Region
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) By Region I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France By Region
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) By Region Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese By Region
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 By Region If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington By Region
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom By Region What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte By Region
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor By Region We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do By Region
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov By Region Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous By Region
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon By Region Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac By Region
