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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Judo Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Judo
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Judo "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Judo
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Judo If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Judo
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Judo "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Judo
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Judo I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Judo
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Judo You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Judo
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Judo Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Judo
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Judo Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Judo
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Judo The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Judo
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Judo Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Judo
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Judo Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Judo
