"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Q "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Q
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Q "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Q
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Q "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 Q
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Q "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Q
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Q What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Q
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Q I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Q
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Q Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Q
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Q "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Q
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Q 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Q
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 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 Q Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 Q
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Q If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Q
