Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Europe Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Europe
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Europe "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Europe
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Europe When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Europe
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Europe Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Europe
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Europe "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Europe
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 Europe Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Europe
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Europe "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Europe
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Europe "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Europe
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Europe I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Europe
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Europe Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Europe
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Europe There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Europe
