Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Web Rings Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Web Rings
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Web Rings The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Web Rings
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "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 "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Web Rings "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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Web Rings
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Web Rings Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Web Rings
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Web Rings A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Web Rings
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Web Rings Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Web Rings
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Web Rings They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Web Rings
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Web Rings A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Web Rings
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Web Rings The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Web Rings
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Web Rings "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Web Rings
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Web Rings After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Web Rings
