If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 K Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx K
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" K Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) K
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H K Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein K
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit K Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke K
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back K 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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason K
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler K "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) K
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time K Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise K
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde K Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 K
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein K 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) K
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier K "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire K
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche K Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II K
