Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Saxe-Coburg-Gotha I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Saxe-Coburg-Gotha I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Saxe-Coburg-Gotha You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Saxe-Coburg-Gotha When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Saxe-Coburg-Gotha "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Saxe-Coburg-Gotha "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Saxe-Coburg-Gotha The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Saxe-Coburg-Gotha "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
