Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell By Location To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan By Location
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign By Location "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman By Location
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) By Location The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee By Location
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 By Location blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester By Location
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi By Location My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey By Location
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead By Location This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst By Location
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) By Location I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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 By Location
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Location A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By Location
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern By Location Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein By Location
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. By Location I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard By Location
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley By Location Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A 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) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche By Location
