Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Atlee, Clement Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 Atlee, Clement
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Atlee, Clement Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Atlee, Clement
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Atlee, Clement And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Atlee, Clement
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Atlee, Clement May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Atlee, Clement
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Atlee, Clement .. 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 man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Atlee, Clement
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Atlee, Clement "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Atlee, Clement
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Atlee, Clement Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Atlee, Clement
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Atlee, Clement The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Atlee, Clement
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Atlee, Clement In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Atlee, Clement
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Atlee, Clement I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Atlee, Clement
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Atlee, Clement Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Atlee, Clement
