All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Politicians Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Politicians
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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Politicians In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Politicians
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Politicians "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Politicians
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Politicians 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 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Politicians
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Politicians It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Politicians
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Politicians "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Politicians
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Politicians It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Politicians
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Politicians Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Politicians
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Politicians Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Politicians
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Politicians As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Politicians
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Politicians Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Politicians
