"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Home and Garden "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Home and Garden
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Home and Garden Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Home and Garden
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Home and Garden Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Home and Garden
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Home and Garden "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Home and Garden
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Home and Garden If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Home and Garden
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 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 Home and Garden Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Home and Garden
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Home and Garden I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Home and Garden
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Home and Garden I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Home and Garden
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Home and Garden Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Home and Garden
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Home and Garden Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Home and Garden
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Home and Garden Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
