"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Baptist Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Baptist
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Baptist Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Baptist
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Baptist "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Baptist
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Baptist Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Baptist
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Baptist Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Baptist
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Baptist Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Baptist
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Baptist Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Baptist
"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, ignorance, g Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Baptist 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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Baptist
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Baptist "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Baptist
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Baptist I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Baptist
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Baptist Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Baptist
