Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Events By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Events
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Events "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Events
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Events A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Events
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Events "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Events
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Events Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Events
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Events 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Events Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Events
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Events God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Events
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Events A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Events
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Events Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Events
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Events "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Events
