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My other wife is beautiful. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Moniaive "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Moniaive
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Moniaive blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Moniaive
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Moniaive By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Moniaive
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Moniaive The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Moniaive
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Moniaive "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Moniaive
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Moniaive Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Moniaive
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Moniaive Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Moniaive
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Moniaive "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Moniaive
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Moniaive Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Moniaive
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Moniaive There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Moniaive
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Moniaive Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Moniaive
