The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Education
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Education The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Education The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Education
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Education We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "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') Education
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 Education
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Education "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) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Education Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Education
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon 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 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Education It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Education
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Education If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Education
