If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) William IV Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. William IV
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin William IV A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) William IV
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous William IV "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, One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde William IV
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) William IV Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery William IV
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf William IV Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What's new? Most of my wife. 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 William IV
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) William IV In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana William IV
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous William IV "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx William IV
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf William IV There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin William IV
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) William IV "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to William IV
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz William IV The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) William IV
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton William IV If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor William IV
