Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz M The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull M
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA M Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words M
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer M Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain M
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain M Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back M
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) M The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce M
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) M Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) M
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis M Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin M
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) M Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 M
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) M America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) M
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle M A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe M
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda M "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet M
