There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I
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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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.
-- Winston Churchill Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I
