As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) S Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... S
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song S Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi S
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop S A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene S
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde S "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours S
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) S "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) S
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire S
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died S Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke S
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf S A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin S
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb S Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) S
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen S "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy S
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) S Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells S
