Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell E Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage E
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell E "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman E
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan 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 E 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 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte E
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard E If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh E
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne E Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau E
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar My other wife is beautiful. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed E The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant E
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) E If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein E
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w E When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to E
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) E If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) E
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill E The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) E
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) E "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre E
