Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda U Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna U
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves 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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw U All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde U
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde U "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi U
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous U "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley U
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story U I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) U
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) U The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle 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 U
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz U I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review U
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may U 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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 U
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou U If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo U
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw U "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. U
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde U A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell U
