Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Stuart, John "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Stuart, John
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stuart, John "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Stuart, John
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Stuart, John Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Stuart, John
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Stuart, John Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Stuart, John
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Stuart, John The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Stuart, John
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Stuart, John He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Stuart, John
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Stuart, John Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Stuart, John
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Stuart, John "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Stuart, John
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Stuart, John Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Stuart, John
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Stuart, John If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Stuart, John
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Stuart, John The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Stuart, John
