Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Y 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Y
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Y I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Y
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Y They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Y
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Y Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Y
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "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) Y It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Y
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Y A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Y
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Y Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Y 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. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Y
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Y Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Y
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Y Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Y
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Y My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Y
