"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Lloyd George, David I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Lloyd George, David
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Lloyd George, David There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Lloyd George, David
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Lloyd George, David Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Lloyd George, David
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Lloyd George, David "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Lloyd George, David
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Lloyd George, David His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Lloyd George, David
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Lloyd George, David Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Lloyd George, David
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Lloyd George, David "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 Lloyd George, David
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lloyd George, David "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Lloyd George, David
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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. Lloyd George, David An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lloyd George, David
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Lloyd George, David Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Lloyd George, David
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Lloyd George, David Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Lloyd George, David
