A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Styles A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Styles
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Styles If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Styles
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Styles One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Styles
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Styles Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Styles
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Styles 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Styles
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Styles Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Styles
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 serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Styles Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Styles
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Styles Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 Styles
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Styles "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Styles
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Styles The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Styles
