Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde N Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. N
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard N Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) N
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill N Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf N
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) N "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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde N
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde N The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. N
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde N One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) N
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes N Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings N
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) N The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet N
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying N Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) N
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. N Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau N
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard N "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo N
