"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Energy Efficiency Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Energy Efficiency
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Energy Efficiency If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Energy Efficiency
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Energy Efficiency My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Energy Efficiency
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Energy Efficiency Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Energy Efficiency
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Energy Efficiency "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Energy Efficiency
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Energy Efficiency 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 "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) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Energy Efficiency
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Energy Efficiency "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Energy Efficiency
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Energy Efficiency We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "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) Energy Efficiency
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Energy Efficiency If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Energy Efficiency
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Energy Efficiency We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Energy Efficiency
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Energy Efficiency This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Energy Efficiency
