It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Balliols, The "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Balliols, The
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Balliols, The There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Balliols, The
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Balliols, The Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Balliols, The
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Balliols, The Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Balliols, The
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Balliols, The Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Balliols, The
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Balliols, The "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Balliols, The
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Balliols, The Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Balliols, The
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Balliols, The 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Balliols, The
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Balliols, The Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Balliols, The
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Balliols, The Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Balliols, The
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Balliols, The Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Balliols, The
