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"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Magazines Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Magazines
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Magazines I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Magazines
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Magazines I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Magazines
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Magazines You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Magazines
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Magazines "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Magazines
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Magazines "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Magazines
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Magazines "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Magazines
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Magazines Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Magazines
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Magazines Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Magazines
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Magazines "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Magazines
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Magazines "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Magazines
