To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Baptist Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Baptist
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Baptist Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Baptist
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Baptist The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Baptist
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Baptist LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Baptist
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "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) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Baptist It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Baptist
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Baptist "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Baptist
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Baptist "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Baptist
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Baptist blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Baptist
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Baptist You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Baptist
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "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) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Baptist "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Baptist
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Baptist I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Baptist
