Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Charles I "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Charles I
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Charles I In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Charles I
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Charles I "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 don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Charles I
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 Charles I Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Charles I
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Charles I The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Charles I
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "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) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "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 Charles I Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Charles I
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Charles I Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Charles I
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Charles I Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Charles I
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Charles I By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Charles I
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Charles I "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Charles I
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Charles I The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Charles I
