Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Weblogs We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Weblogs
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 I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weblogs Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Weblogs
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weblogs "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Weblogs
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Weblogs Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Weblogs
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Weblogs What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Weblogs
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Weblogs Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Weblogs
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Weblogs The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Weblogs
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Weblogs Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Weblogs
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Weblogs Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Weblogs
"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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Weblogs Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Weblogs
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Weblogs Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Weblogs
