Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Hearing 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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Hearing
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Hearing "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Hearing
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "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 Hearing "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Hearing
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Hearing Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Hearing
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Hearing Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hearing
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Hearing It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Hearing
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hearing 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Hearing
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Hearing "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Hearing
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Hearing Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hearing
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hearing The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Hearing
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hearing Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Hearing
