Gramadach Lexicon - Simple printout of the lexicon used by the Gramadach computer programs.
Ye Olde English Sayings - A quick, fun-to-read collection of the origins of terms contributed by users.
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Language I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Language
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Language Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Language
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Language Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Language
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Language When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Language
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Language A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Language
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Language Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Language
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Language They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Language
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx 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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Language 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Language
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Language A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Language
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Language A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Language
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Language "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Language
