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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arun 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 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Arun
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Arun Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 Arun
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Arun There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arun
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Arun If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Arun
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Arun 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 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Arun
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arun In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Arun
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Arun Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Arun
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "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) Arun The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Arun
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Arun Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Arun
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Arun Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Arun
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Arun I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Arun
