The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Q Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Q
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Q "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Q
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Q What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Q
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Q "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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Q
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Q UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Q
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Q "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Q
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Q Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Q
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Q Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Q
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Q "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Q
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Q Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 Q
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Q 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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Q
