A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. O Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli O
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli O Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" O
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb O An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) O
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) O "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis O
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland O I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers O
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres O Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos O
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "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) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) O I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey O
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous O "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) O
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) O "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) O
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th O Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy O
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau O We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) O
