Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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" K Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry K
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce K "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard K
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 K Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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" K
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. K Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) K
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers 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 K "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney K
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual K The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. K
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) K I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca K
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm K Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith K
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "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) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 K Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words K
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) K "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) K
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant K Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 K
