Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) D "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words D
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw D "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald D
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "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 D
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous D "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois D
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any D Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) D
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) D Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) D
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud D Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting D Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard D
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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 D "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) D
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) D "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken D
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw D Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) D
