The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Architecture "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Architecture
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Architecture A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Architecture
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Architecture Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Architecture
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Architecture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Architecture
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Architecture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Architecture
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Architecture Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Architecture
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Architecture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Architecture
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Architecture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Architecture
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Architecture Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Architecture
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Architecture The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Architecture
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Architecture I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Architecture
