When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne V I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) V
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer V Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "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) V
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms V Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith V
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) V Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson V
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland V "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop V
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown V Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous V
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken V Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi V
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones V Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo V
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your V There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain V
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli V "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly V
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) V Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) V
