There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) X Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine X
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett X If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) X
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin X Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous X
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne X Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton X
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler X There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron X
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) X "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison X
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) X I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou X
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) X "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "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) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown X
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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes X It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi X
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod X Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning X
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) X "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 X
