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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Cricklade 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) Cricklade
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Cricklade "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Cricklade
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Cricklade 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Cricklade
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Cricklade Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Cricklade
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Cricklade Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Cricklade
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Cricklade "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Cricklade
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Cricklade It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Cricklade
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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Cricklade To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "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) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Cricklade
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Cricklade The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Cricklade
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Cricklade "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Cricklade
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Cricklade "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 Cricklade
