The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx W A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh W
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) W "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen W "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone W
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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist W The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw W
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George W However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous W
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) W When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 W
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs W Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon W
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little W Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx W
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx W "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald W
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor W The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx W
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire W The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) W
