He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Macmillan, Harold Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Macmillan, Harold
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Macmillan, Harold "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Macmillan, Harold
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Macmillan, Harold Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Macmillan, Harold
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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Macmillan, Harold "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Macmillan, Harold
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Macmillan, Harold A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Macmillan, Harold
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Macmillan, Harold The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Macmillan, Harold
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Macmillan, Harold Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Macmillan, Harold
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Macmillan, Harold "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Macmillan, Harold
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Macmillan, Harold Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Macmillan, Harold
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Macmillan, Harold Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Macmillan, Harold
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Macmillan, Harold "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Macmillan, Harold
