Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon C "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) C
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) C Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) C
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes C Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw C
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle C Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan C
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) C An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson C
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) C A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne C
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow C The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder C
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac C "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) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and C
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire C Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 C
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood C "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that C
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 C "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner C
