The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau History Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor History
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) History "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 History
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str History To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager History
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright History In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton History
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan History Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke History
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber History 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 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous History
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw History You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw History
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. History Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell History
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless History Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) History
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) History Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln History
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th History There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands History
