A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Government "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Government
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Government "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Government
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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 Government "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Government
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Government The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Government No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Government
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Government Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Government
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Government "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Government
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Government
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Government Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Government
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Government "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Government
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Government Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Government
