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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Usk You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Usk
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Usk Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) "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) Usk
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Usk A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Usk
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Usk There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Usk
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Usk It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Usk
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Usk Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Usk
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Usk "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Usk
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Usk Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Usk
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Usk "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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Usk
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Usk "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Usk
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Usk Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "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) Usk
