Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. German Shepherd Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha German Shepherd
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
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-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad German Shepherd Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead German Shepherd
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham German Shepherd 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 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n German Shepherd
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken German Shepherd Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo German Shepherd
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) German Shepherd Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach German Shepherd
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower German Shepherd The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi German Shepherd
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries German Shepherd "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky German Shepherd
"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) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham German Shepherd "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan German Shepherd
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr German Shepherd We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker German Shepherd
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills German Shepherd A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac German Shepherd
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx German Shepherd We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) German Shepherd
