b "Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from. b $HOME is where you hang your @. b /Earth is 98% full... Please delete anyone you can. b 1 bull, 3 cows. b 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. b A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1 b A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. b A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. b A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. b A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken. b A CONS is an object which cares. -- Bernie Greenberg b A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. b A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. b A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Donald Knuth b A true Klingon Warrior does not comment his code! b A user and his leisure time are soon parted. b Access denied -- nyah, nyah! b After enough decimal places, nobody gives a damn. b All computers run at the same speed... With the power off. b All computers wait at the same speed. b All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound? b An elephant is a mouse with an operating system. b And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode. b Another megabytes the dust. b Any given program will expand to fill available memory. b Any nitwit can understand computers. Many do. -- Ted Nelson b Any program that runs right is obsolete. b Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec b APL is a write-only language. -- Roy Keir b Artificial intelligence usually beats real stupidity. b Artificial Intelligence: Making computers behave like they do in the movies. b As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing! b As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. -- Conrad Weisert b As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. b Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether submarines can swim. b Back up my hard drive? I can't find the reverse switch! b Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic? b Backups? We don't NEED no steenking backups. b Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay... b Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers. -- Tom Lehrer b Best file compression around: "DEL" = 100% compression. b Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein b Brain fried -- core dumped. b BREAKFAST.COM Halted -- Cereal Port Not Responding. b Breakthrough: It finally booted on the first try. b Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster. b Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. b CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.. b COFFEE.EXE Missing -- Insert Cup and Press Any Key. b Compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source. b Computer and car salesmen differ in that the latter know when they are lying. b Computer chips are so small because computers don't eat much. b Computer programmers do it byte by byte. b Computer: A device designed to speed up and automate errors. b Computers are a more fun way to do the same work you'd have to do without them. b Computers are not intelligent -- they just think they are. b Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso b Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. b Congratulations! You are the one-millionth user to log into our system. b CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Reboot Washington, DC? (Y/N) b Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs. b Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal if you don't use your thumbs. b Dain bramaged, dore cumped. b Death is a non-maskable interrupt. b Diagnostics are the programs that run when nothing else will. b Disc space -- the final frontier! b Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors. b Don't byte off more than you can view. b Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts. b Don't let the computer bugs bite! b Don't pay computer programmers too much money, it just encourages the bad ones. b Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time. b E Pluribus Modem. b E Pluribus UNIX. b Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX. -- Tom Christaensen b Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue. b Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue. b Ethernet: Something used to catch the etherbunny. b Every program can be reduced to just one instruction -- that doesn't work. b Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail. b Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits. b Everybody needs a little love sometime; stop hacking and fall in love! b Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven. b f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. b Failure is not an option; it comes bundled with the software. b Feature: A bug with seniority. b File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) b Foolproof operation: All parameters are hard coded. b fortune: No such file or directory b Futuristic: It will only run on a next generation supercomputer. b God is real, unless declared integer. b God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man. b Hackers have kernel knowledge. b Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. b Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese computer factory! b Help,MySpaceBarIsBroken!AnndMyBBackspaaceKeyyToo! b Hit any user to continue. b HOST SYSTEM NOT RESPONDING, PROBABLY DOWN. DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? (Y/N) b How an engineer writes a program: Start by debugging an empty file... b How do I love thee? My accumulator overflows. b How do I set my laser printer on stun? b How do you know it's an ENDLESS loop? b How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff? -- Mark Roop-Kharasch b How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work? b How was Thomas J. Watson buried? 9 edge down. b I "upgraded" my computer to several levels above my head. -- Ellen Goodman b I am a computer -- dumber than any human and smarter than an administrator. b I am still waiting for the advent of the computer science groupie. b I am the computer your mother warned you about. b I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky b I came, I saw, I deleted all your files. b I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on disk somewhere. b I must have slipped a disk; my pack hurts. b I smell a wumpus. b I still get goose bumps every time I override a method... -- Harry Wiguna b I'm a firm believer in baseball bat therapy for computers. -- Dan Gookin b If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. b If a program is useful, it must be changed. b If a program is useless, it must be documented. b If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work station? b If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. b If God had intended Man to program, we would be born with serial I/O ports. b If I had it all to do over again, I'd spell creat with an "e". -- Brian Kernighan b If it was easy, the hardware people would take care of it. b If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist. b In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. -- Brian Reid b In God we trust; all else we walk through. b In the future on the Web, everyone will have 15 megabytes of fame. b It is now pitch dark. If you proceed, you will likely fall into a pit. b It is ten o'clock; do you know where your processes are? b It's a bad sign when you need a screwdriver to install a new operating system. b Keyboard: The standard way to generate computer errors. b Kiss your keyboard goodbye! b Last one out, turn off the computer! b Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. b Lisp Users: Due to the holiday, there will be no garbage collection on Monday. b LISP: To call a spade a thpade. b Login incorrect. Only perfect spellers may enter this system. b logout b Long computations that yield zero are probably all for naught. b Machine-independent: Does not run on any existing machine. b Mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available. b Managing software engineers is like herding cats. b Manual Writer's Creed: Garbage in, gospel out. b Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. -- R. S. Barton b Meets quality standards: Compiles without errors. b Mental backup in progress -- do not disturb. b MIPS: Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. b Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate. b My New Year's resolution is: 1024 x 768. b My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. b Netnews is like yelling, "Anyone want to buy a used car?" in a crowded theater. b Never trust a computer you can't lift. -- Stan Masor b Never trust a computer you can't throw out the window. -- S. Hunt b Nice computers don't go down. b No line available at 300 baud. b No program done by a hacker will work unless he is on the system. b No program done by an undergrad will work after she graduates. b Obsolete: Any computer you own. b Old mail has arrived. b Old programmers never die; they just branch to a new address. b Old programmers never die; they just GOSUB without RETURN. b On a clear disk you can seek forever. -- Denning b One if by LAN, two if by C. -- Paul Revere, as told by John Karwoski b One man's constant is another man's variable. -- Alan Perlis b One person's error is another person's data. b One picture is worth 128K words. b Our mothers would be proud of us if we could explain to them what it is we do. b Over-computered is when you try to enter your password on your microwave oven. b Overflow on /dev/null; please empty the bit bucket. b Pause for storage relocation. b People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten. -- Jon Bentley b Portable: Survives system reboot. b Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. -- Vint Cerf b Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. b Press any key... No, no, no, NOT THAT ONE! b Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. b Program: A magic spell that converts input data to error messages. b Programmers do it bit by bit. b Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait. b Programming is an art form that fights back. b Programming is an unnatural act. b Programming just with goto's is like swatting flies with a sledgehammer. b Protect your software at all costs -- all else is meat. b RAM disk is NOT an installation procedure. b Random access is the optimum of the mass storages. b Real programs don't eat cache. b Remember the good old days, when CPU was singular? b Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. b Revolutionary: Disk drives go round and round. b Save energy: Drive a smaller shell. b SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out! -- Ken Thompson b Shift to the left! Shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte! b Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. b Software is to computers as yeast is to dough. -- Chuck Bradshaw b Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand progress. b Southern DOS: Y'all reckon? (Yep/Nope) b Spelling checker: Converts spelling errors into malapropisms. b State-of-the-art: Any computer you can't afford. b Structured programming supports the law of the excluded muddle. b Supercomputer: Turns CPU-bound problem into I/O-bound problem. -- Ken Batcher b Swap read error. You lose your mind. b Syntax error: "Hello, I want to buy a computer and money is no object." b System going down at 1:45 for disk crashing. b System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug. b Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- R. S. Barton b That does not compute. b The amount of clue on the Internet remains constant. -- Evi Nemeth b The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord. b The code was willing. It considered your request, but the chips were weak. b The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually, the programmer. -- Alan Silverstein b The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language. b The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. b The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. b The hardest bugs to find are the easiest ones to fix. b The Internet is a logic-optional forum. -- Marc Callier b The moving cursor prints, and having printed, blinks on. b The next generation of computers will have a "Warranty Expired" interrupt. b The original point-and-click interface was a Smith & Wesson. b The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong. b The steady state of disks is full. -- Ken Thompson b The Tao that is seen is not the true Tao, until you bring fresh toner. b The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. b The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!! b The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. b There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. b There must be more to life than compile-and-go. b There's no place like http://www.home.com. b This fortune soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess memory. b This login session: $13.76, but for you: $11.88. b This screen intentionally left blank. b This site was moved. We'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you. b This system will self-destruct in five minutes. b Those who can't write, write help files. b Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! b Thrashing is just virtual crashing. b Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which occurred. b To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. b To err is human; to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System. b To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer. b To iterate is human; to recurse, divine. -- Robert Heller b Too many clicks spoil the browse. b Unable to locate coffee -- operator halted! b UNIX is a nice place to live, but you don't want to visit there. b UNIX is very user-friendly... It's just picky about its friends. b Unprecedented performance: Nothing ever ran this slow before. b Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in. b Variables won't; constants aren't. -- Adam Osborn b Virtual memory is for weenies! -- Seymour Cray b What boots up must come down. b What do computer engineers use for birth control? Their personalities. b What this country needs is a good five-cent microcomputer. b Where the system is concerned, you are not allowed to ask "Why?". b Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users? b Would YOU pass a Turing test? b You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME. b You can't make a program without broken egos. b You can't teach a new mouse old clicks. b You depend too much on computers for information. b You forgot to do your backup 16 days ago. Tomorrow you will need that version. b You had mail, but the super-user read it, and deleted it! b You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. b You have junk mail. b You know it is going to be a bad day when you forget your new password. b You might have mail. b You never finish a program, you just stop working on it. b Your email has been returned due to insufficient voltage. b Your fault -- core dumped. b Your password is pitifully obvious. b [Unix] is not necessarily evil, like OS/2. -- Peter Norton c A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation. c A fault tolerant system must report the faults even as it tolerates them. c A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. -- Laura Creighton c A low level language is one whose programs require attention to the irrelevant. c A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. c A successful tool is used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- Samuel Johnson c Abstraction is achieved by data hiding and enforced by encapsulation. c Actual usability is inversely proportionate to apparent user-friendliness. c Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -- Frederick Brooks c All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. c All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken. c All you need to know is the user interface. -- J. Redford c An algorithm must be seen to be believed. -- Donald Knuth c An infinite loop is OK as long as you don't get stuck in it. c An operating system without virtual memory is an OS without virtue. c Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. c Avoid GOTOs completely if you can keep the program readable. c Avoid the Fortran arithmetic IF (or better yet, just avoid Fortran). c Avoid unnecessary branches. c Bad style destroys an otherwise superb program. c Bad tools result in bad software. -- J.L. Marsh c BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. -- Seymour Papert c Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom. c Choose variable names that will not be confused. c Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. -- Gilb c Computers talk to each other worse than their designers do. c Computers... are not designed, as we are, for ambiguity. -- Thomas c Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernighan c Digital circuits are made from analog parts. c Disk is cheap, but storage is expensive. c Don't comment or patch bad code; rewrite it. c Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality. c Don't diddle code to make it faster; find a better algorithm. c Don't document the program; program the document. c Don't stop at one bug. c Every bug you find is the last one. c Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. c Every program is either trivial or it contains at least one bug. c Everything should be transparent to the user. c Expert systems are built to embody the knowledge of human experts. -- Rich Kulawiec c Favor object composition over class inheritance. c Garbage in, garbage out. c Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. -- Eric Raymond c Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite. -- Eric Raymond c I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov c I suppose when it gets to that point, we shan't know how it does it. -- Alan Turing c If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. -- Schryer c If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some. c In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis c It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. c It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. c It wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. -- Maurice Wilkes, 1949 c It's easy to get lost in the details of an incorrect implementation. -- Tom von Alten c It's very important that we build a general AI that loves humanity. -- Ilya Sutskever c Know Thy User. c Let the machine do the dirty work. -- Elements of Programming Style c Machine independent code isn't. c Make input easy to proofread. c Make it right before you make it faster. c Make sure all variables are initialized before use. c Make sure comments and code agree. c Make sure your code "does nothing" gracefully. c Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- David Gries c Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach c Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Jackson c Never write software that anthropomorphizes the machine. c Never write software that patronizes the user. c New technology becomes salable three years before it becomes usable. c New technology becomes usable three years before its users become competent. c No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham c On the Web, understanding the medium matters more than controlling the layout. c Performance is easier to add than clarity. c Plan the system for change. -- Frederick Brooks c Program to an interface, not an implementation. c Replace repetitive expressions by calls to a common function. c Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than vice versa. c Software is best understood as a branch of movie making. -- Ted Nelson c Software is mind work. Having the right frame of mind is essential. c The best packed information most resembles random noise. c The computer is the Proteus of machines. -- Seymour Papert c The computing field is always in need of new cliches. -- Alan Perlis c The less time planning, the more time programming. c The Macintosh was the first personal computer good enough to be criticized. c The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. (6/72) c The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming c The wise person writes bomb-proof code. c There are always at least two ways to program the same thing. c There are never any bugs you haven't found yet. c There can never be a computer language in which you cannot write a bad program. c There is no problem that, when programmed just right, isn't more complicated. c To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program. c Try not to let implementation details sneak into design documents. c Undetectable errors are infinite; detectable errors by definition are finite. c UNIX is many things to many people, but it has never been everything to anybody. c Use free-form input where possible. c Use GOTOs only to implement a fundamental structure. c Use IF...ELSE IF...ELSE IF...ELSE... to implement multi-way branches. c Use text for text and images for images. -- Paul Martz c Using a free internet service, you're not the customer, you're the product. c Watch out for off-by-one errors. c When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes. c When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't. c You don't have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer. f A gift of flower will soon be made to you. f A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. -- Yogi Berra f A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work. f A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work. f All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly. f Among the lucky, you are the chosen one. f An actor without a writer is a waiter. -- RJ Colleary f Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. -- Yogi Berra f Courage is your greatest present need. f Divide your time evenly to keep others happy. f Do not overtax your powers. f Don't despair; your ideal lover is waiting for you around the corner. f Executive ability is prominent in your make-up. f Exercise caution in your daily affairs. f Flee at once, all is discovered. f Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals. f Good news from afar will bring you a welcome visitor. f His heart was yours from the first moment that you met. f Hold tight to your dreams. f I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. -- Yogi Berra f I didn't really say everything I said. -- Yogi Berra f I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -- Ashleigh Brilliant f I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. -- Yogi Berra f I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. -- Yogi Berra f If the people don't want to come to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. -- Yogi Berra f If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. -- Yogi Berra f It gets late early out here. -- Yogi Berra f Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure. f Long life is in store for you. f Love is in the offing. Be affectionate to one who adores you. f Never answer an anonymous letter. -- Yogi Berra f Old acquaintance will soon be remembered. f Retribution will be yours. f Show your affection, which will probably meet with pleasant response. f Show your appreciation for your lover by surprising him/her with a small gift. f Someone close to you is taking advantage of your trust. f Someone is enthusiastic about your work. f Someone is speaking well of you. f Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you. f Take time in life to smell the rabbits, eat the flowers, and pet the cactus. f That wasn't chicken. -- fictitious fortune cookie in an ad f The future is bright in affairs of the heart. f The lousy teams are good this year. -- Yogi Berra f The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others. f The only things that come out of meetings, are people. f The time is right to make new friends. f There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. f Torture numbers and they will confess to anything. -- Gregg Easterbrook f Value useful qualities in one who loves you. f Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel. -- Yogi Berra f You are capable of planning your future. f You are going to have a new love affair. f You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music. f You have a deep interest in all that is artistic. f You have an ability to sense and know higher truth. f You have an ambitious nature and might make a name for yourself. f You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances. f You look on the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. f You love peace. f You need not worry about your future. f You talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. f You will always have good luck in your personal affairs. f You will attract cultured and artistic people to your home. f You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part. f You will be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people. f You will be recognized and honored as a community leader. f You will be singled out for promotion in your work. f You will be successful in love. f You will be traveling and coming into a fortune. f You will get what you deserve. f You will have a long-term stimulation relative to business. f You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends. f You will have good luck and overcome many hardships. f You will have long and healthy life. f You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you. f You will reach the highest possible point in your business or profession. f Your aims are high, and you are capable of much. f Your business will go through a period of considerable expansion. f Your depth of comprehension might tend to make you lax in worldly ways. f Your love life will be happy and harmonious. f Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments. f Your present plans will be successful. f Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded. h " " -- Harpo Marx h "Breakfast sometime?" "Sure." "Shall I call you, or just nudge you?" h "Criminal lawyer" is a redundancy. h "Daddy, the garbage man is here!" "Tell him we don't need any." -- Edward Abbey h "Define UNIVERSE; give two examples." "The perceived world; 1) mine, 2) yours." h "Have you lived here all your life?" "Oh, twice that long." h "In no language can a double positive form a negative." "Yeah, yeah..." h "Name two pronouns." "Who? Me?" h "Those good old days" really means "those good young days." -- Herbert Salzer h "Was that an avalanche, or was that thunder?" Mountaineers HATE that question. h "Wayne Newton is," he says, "an example of what America can be." h 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing: 1 I.V. League. h 24 hours in a day... 24 beers in a case... Coincidence? h 28.35 grams of prevention are worth 0.45359 kilograms of cure. h 355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number pi, but an incredible simulation. h 97% of what I say is correct, and I don't care about the other 4%. h A backscratcher will always find new itches. -- Gomme h A backward poet writes inverse. h A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. h A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired. h A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him. h A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead. h A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose. h A blind skydiver knows he's approaching the ground when the leash goes slack. h A boss with no humor is like a job that's no fun. h A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends. -- Barton Biggs h A career is just a job that went on too long. h A cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. -- Mark Twain h A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. h A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. h A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. h A comet is about as close to nothing as you can get and still have something. h A committee is an animal with at least six legs, and no brain. -- Robert Heinlein h A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. h A consultant saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. -- Arnold Glasgow h A corkscrew is the best thing with which to open a conversation. h A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Franklin h A couple of months in the lab can often save a couple of hours in the library. h A crisis is when you can't say, "Let's just forget the whole thing." -- Ferguson h A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine. h A day without orange juice is like a day without orange juice. h A day without sunshine is like night. h A dean is to a faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn h A diamond is just a lump of coal that made good under pressure. h A dime is a dollar after the taxes are taken out. h A drink a day keeps the shrink away. -- Edward Abbey h A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein h A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. h A fool and his money are soon invited places. h A fool and his money are soon partying. h A fool and his money stabilize the economy. h A fool with money to burn soon meets his match. h A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. h A friend in need is a pest indeed. h A gambler plays slot machines. I prefer to OWN slot machines. -- Donald Trump h A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding ducks. h A good compromise is where two people both end up unhappy. h A good landing: You can walk away. A great landing: You can reuse the airplane. h A good scapegoat is hard to find. h A harp is a nude piano. h A helicopter is just a bunch of parts flying in close formation. h A home where the buffalo roam... Is messy. h A homeowner's reach should exceed her grasp, or what's a weekend for? h A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke. h A journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. h A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Mom. h A kid'll eat the middle of an Oreo, eventually. h A king's castle is his home. h A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction. h A lady draws a line, while a tramp falls for a line. -- Robert Byrne h A lady is chaste. A tramp is chased. h A lady lives for a loving. A tramp loves for a living. h A lie in time saves nine. h A little dangering is a learneous thing. -- The Covert Comic h A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. -- Steven Wright h A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. h A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. -- Snow h A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West h A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor h A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. h A man who fishes for marlin in ponds will put his money in Etruscan bonds. h A man who turns green has eschewed protein. h A man without a woman is like a fish without gills. h A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. h A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. h A man's house is his hassle. h A million here, a million there; soon you're talking real money. -- Sen. Everett Dirksen h A modest little person, with much to be modest about. -- Winston Churchill h A motion to adjourn is always in order. h A movie's badness is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. h A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants. -- Ella Wilcox h A penny saved has not been spent. h A penny saved is an economic breakthrough. h A penny saved is better than a penny earned -- after taxes. h A penny saved is ridiculous. h A person is innocent until proven President. h A pessimist is a married optimist. h A plateau is a high form of flattery. h A poet can survive anything but a misprint. -- Oscar Wilde h A poet who reads his verse in public might have other nasty habits. h A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with. -- William Safire h A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first. h A quarter ounce of chocolate equals four pounds of fat. h A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. -- Franklin Roosevelt h A recent survey indicated 54% of the population is interested in statistics. h A recent survey proved 51% of the population are in the majority. h A Renaissance man diffuses to refine himself. -- Steve Hug h A ring is a hole with a rim round it. h A rolling stone gathers momentum. h A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule. h A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist. -- Arthur Koestler h A sentence is worth a thousand words. h A ship carrying a cargo of yo-yos was hit by a typhoon and sank 23 times. h A shortcut is the longest path between two points. h A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard. h A sinking ship gathers no moss. -- Donald Kaul h A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two. h A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight. h A Smith & Wesson beats four aces. h A soft drink turneth away company. h A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam. h A successful American spends more supporting the government than a family. h A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down. h A table centerpiece should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist. h A taxi driver is a man who drives away customers. -- Henry Cate h A theorist right once in ten is a hero; an observer wrong that often is a bum. h A theory is better than its explanation. -- Woodward h A triangle that has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle. h A truly wise person never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn. h A university without students is like an ointment without a fly. -- Ed Nather h A verbal contract isn't worth the paper its printed on. -- Samuel Goldwyn h A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. h A waist is a terrible thing to mind. -- Ziggy h A watched clock never boils. -- Tom Weller h A wedding is a funeral where a man smells his own flowers. h A white bear which is nice, then nasty, then nice, is a... Bipolar bear. h A woman need not reveal her age, only her passions. h A young child is a noise with dirt on it. h Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. h Abandoning my search for truth, now I search for petrified wood. h About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. h About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. h About when we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover h Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest precedent. h Absence makes the heart go wander. h Absence makes the heart grow fonder... For someone else. h Absolute truth is a 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court. h Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it is out of date.) -- Stafford Beer h Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song. h Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. h Abstinence vanishes with presence. h Absurdity: Statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. h Academy: A modern school where football is taught. h Accept a breath mint if someone offers you one. -- H. Jackson Brown h Accident: When presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. h According to my calculations, the problem does not exist. h According to the official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. h Accordionated: Able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. h Accuracy: The vice of being right. h Act old later. -- Lily Tomlin h Acting: An art that consists of keeping the audience from coughing. h Activation Energy: The useful energy available in one cup of coffee. h Actors will happen in the best-regulated families. h Acupuncture is a jab well done. h Ad: Amana washer $100. Owned by clean bachelor who seldom washed. h Ad: Cute kitten for sale, 2 cents or best offer. h Ad: Free puppies: 1/2 cocker spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor dog. h Ad: Georgia peaches -- California grown -- 89 cents/lb. h Ad: Joining nudist colony, must sell washer & dryer -- $300. h Ad: Snow blower for sale... Only used on snowy days. h Ad: Tickle Me Elmo. New in box. Hardly tickled. $700. h Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. h Adolescence: That period of time between puberty and adultery. h Adult: A person that has stopped growing at both ends but not in the middle. h Adult: One old enough to know better. h Adultery: Putting yourself in someone else's position. h Adults are just kids who owe money. h Advanced design: Upper management doesn't understand it. h Advanced technology: It's too complicated for me. h Adventure is a sign of incompetence. -- Roald Amundsen h Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. -- Fred Allen h Aeroma: Odor emanating from an exercise room after an aerobics workout. h Affluenza: Compulsively buying possessions to satisfy some inner urge. -- Moxcey h After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. -- Olmstead h After having sex, talk to your wife, if there is a phone in reach. h After painting the town red, take a rest before applying a second coat. h Afterism: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late. -- Thom h Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. h Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. h Age is not important unless you're a cheese. h Aging is a birth defect. -- Al Rosenthal h Aging is a non-curable disease. -- Seneca h Aging means it takes all day to do what you used to be able to do all day. h Agriculture is something like farming; only farming is doing it. h Ah, to be a buzzard now that spring is here! -- Edward Abbey h Aiming for the least common denominator sometimes causes division by zero. h Air is water with holes in it. h Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil. h Airlines have really changed: Now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant. h Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Foch h Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. -- Edward Abbey h Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. h Alcohol kills you slowly, but who's in a hurry? h Alcoholic: Someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. -- Dylan Thomas h Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer... h Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth. h Alimony is a splitting headache. h Alimony is the high cost of leaving. h All bleeding eventually stops. h All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private. h All I ask is the chance to prove that money cannot make me happy. -- Lauris h All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. h All I want is a little more than I'll ever get. h All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h All men are created equal, but some must be sent to Siberia. -- Henry Cate h All men are created equal. All women are created superior. -- Cathy Guisewitz h All men are idiots, and I married their king. h All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane. h All new: Parts not interchangeable with previous model. h All people are born alike -- except Republicans and Democrats. -- Groucho Marx h All probabilities are really 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't. h All signs in metric for the next 20 miles. -- road sign in Ohio h All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. h All that glitters has a high refractive index. h All the good ones are taken. -- Suzy Harris h All the men on my staff can type. -- Bella Abzug h All the modern inconveniences... -- Mark Twain h All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture. h All the points in between are, well, in between. -- Jim Morrison h All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. h All things being equal, fat people use more soap. h All things being equal, I'd rather be created. -- John Taylor h All things considered, life is 9 to 5 against. h All trails have more uphill sections than they have downhill sections. h All true wisdom is found on T-shirts. h All we need here, God, is one little precision earthquake. h All you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk. h All's well that ends. h Allan Roth describes himself as argumentative... it's hard to argue with him. -- Jonathan Clements h Allow me to introduce my selves. h Almonds are members of the peach family. h Almost everyone agrees it's fair to discriminate against lazy and stupid people. h Alpha geek: The most technically proficient member of an engineering team. h Although our information is incorrect, we do not vouch for it. -- Erik Satie h Although the moon is 1/4 the size of the earth, it is much farther away. h Aluminum rain: What falls after a midair passenger exchange. h Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. h Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. h Always draw your curves, then plot the data. h Always drink upstream from the herd. h Always hire a rich attorney. Never buy from a rich salesman. -- Goldenstern h Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them. h Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out. h Always offer to bait your date's hook, especially on the first date. h Always pick on the correct idiom. -- William Safire h Always remember that you are unique... Just like everyone else. h Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn. h Always take both skis off before hanging them up. h Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. h Am I in charge here?... No, but I'm full of ideas. -- Dr. Who h Ambiguity: Telling the truth when you don't mean to. h Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -- Charlie McCarthy h Ambivalent? Well, yes and no. h America was created by geniuses to be run by idiots. h America: A nice place to own, but I wouldn't want to live there. h Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it. h Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time. h Among economists, the real world is often a special case. -- Horngren h An after-dinner speaker is the fellow who starts the bull rolling. h An after-dinner speaker rises to the occasion -- and stays too long. h An airplane glides through the air; a helicopter beats the air into submission. h An ambush: Engaging the enemy on all sides. h An apple a day keeps the doctor away... If it is aimed well. h An apple a day makes 365 apples a year. -- Tom Weller h An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away. h An artist should be fit for the best society and kept out of it. h An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. h An elm's bark is worse when there's blight. -- Henry Gay h An example of hard water is ice. h An expert has a great reason for guessing wrong. h An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes in a very narrow field. -- Neils Bohr h An expert is a person who knows more and more about less and less. -- Butler h An expert is one who is never in doubt, but often in error. h An honest God's the noblest work of man. -- Robert Ingersoll h An idle mind is worth two in the bush. h An informed citizen panics more intelligently. h An inverse paranoid believes the world is plotting to do him good. -- Jack Canfield h An object at rest will always be in the wrong place. h An object in motion will always be headed in the wrong direction. h An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. h An ounce of rejection is worse than a pound of "sure". h An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. -- Van Roy h Anarchy is against the law. h Anarchy might not be the best form of government, but it is better than none. h Anarchy: It's not a law, it's just a good idea. h And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. h And now for something completely different. h Animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give wrong answers. h Answer my prayers, steal this car. h Antonym: The opposite of the word you are trying to think of. h Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. -- Murray h Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. h Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. h Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. -- Malek h Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a "rigged" demo. -- J.L. Marsh h Any tool when dropped rolls into the least accessible corner. h Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Holmes h Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. h Anyone can admit they were wrong; the true test is admitting it to someone else. h Anyone can keep a marriage together, but staying happily divorced takes work! h Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none. h Anyone who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is parked. h Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. -- Samuel Goldwyn h Anyone who makes an absolute statement is a fool. h Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough. h Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet. h Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. -- Pardo h Anything that doesn't make sense ends up in court and becomes case law. h Anything that is good and useful is made of chocolate. h Anything worth doing is a lot more difficult than it's worth. -- Scott Adams h Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. -- Mae West h Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. h Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing. h Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you. h Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious. -- James Hogan h Apparently the Creator likes diversity a lot more than we humans do. h Appearances are not everything; it just looks like they are. h Aquadextrous: Able to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. h Arachnoleptic fit: Frantic dance just after running into a spider web. h Archaeologists will date any old thing. h Archeology is the only profession where your future lies in ruins. h Are you going to be more interesting than you were yesterday? h Are you lustworthy? h Are you making this up as you go along? h Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. h Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. h Arithmetic is counting to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse h Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall McLuhan h Artery: Study of paintings. h As a matter of fact, I DO own the road! h As God is my witness, Andy, I thought that turkeys could fly. -- WKRP in Cinncinnati h As I learn to trust the universe, I no longer need to carry a gun. h As is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. -- Dave Barry h As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? h Ask about our layaway plan. -- sign in funeral parlor h Ask about our plans for owning your home. -- sign in loan company office h Ask not for whom the bell tolls, and pay only station-to-station rates. h Astronauts are out to launch. h Astronomers bring light to the darkest discussions. -- Kreigh Tomaszewski h At 300 miles an hour, you can make a rock fly. -- Sam Wheeler h At least five buses go by in the opposite direction before yours arrives. h At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits. h At my age, I don't buy green bananas. h At some point you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. h At these prices, I lose money -- but I make it up in volume. -- Peter Alaquon h Atheism is a non-prophet organization. h Atheists are beyond belief. h Atheists are people with no invisible means of support. h Auditors always reject expense accounts with a bottom line divisible by five. h Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog. -- Dorothy h Author: An imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey h Authority: A person who can tell you more than you really care to know. h Autobiography is fiction written by the one who knows the facts. h Autocorrect has become my worst enema. h Automobile: A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians. h Avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives. -- William Safire h Avoid colloquial stuff. h Avoid commas, that are not necessary. h Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. -- William Safire h Avoid truth decay. Be sure to use mental floss twice a day. -- Steve Bhaerman h Babies can't walk because their legs aren't long enough to reach the ground. h Babies learn decibels before they learn syllables. h Bachelor: A guy who is footloose and fiancee-free. h Bachelor: A man who never made the same mistake once. h Bachelor: A selfish guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce. -- Quinn h Bacteria are the only culture some people have. h Bad luck is being run over by the welcome wagon. h Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones. h Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis. h Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare. h Bananosecond: The time between slipping on a peel and landing on the pavement. h Banectomy: The removal of bruises on a banana. -- Rich Hall h Barium: What doctors do when treatment fails. h Baseball is religion without the mischief. -- Tom Boswell h Baseball is to football as Beethoven is to rap. -- Patrick Mott h Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower. h Be a better psychiatrist and the world will beat a psychopath to your door. h Be alert; the world needs more lerts. h Be careful not to screw yourself in the foot. h Be careful of reading health books; you might die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain h Be content with what you've got, but be sure you've got plenty. h Be different, act normal. h Be glad you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction. h Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? h Be kind to your inferiors, if you can find any. h Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. -- Mary Schmich h Be nice to your kids; they will choose your nursing home. h Be of good cheer: We'll live to piss on the graves of our enemies. -- Edward Abbey h Be patient and achieve all things. Be impatient and achieve all things faster. h Be reasonable: Do it my way. h Be sure to poofread your writing. h Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. h Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here. -- James Kirk h Beauty is in the body of the beholdee. -- John Taylor h Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... h Beauty is only skin deep, but it is very agreeable, for all that. -- Cobbett h Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. h Beauty times brains equals a constant. h Becoming overweight is something that snacks up on you. h Bedfellows make strange politicians. h Beer, one of my favorite solvents... It dissolves even thoughts! -- JR Hodel h Before each flight ensure your bladder is empty and your fuel tanks are full. h Before enlightenment, also do the laundry. -- Alan Silverstein h Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? h Before you find your handsome prince, you must kiss a lot of frogs. h Begathon: A multi-day event on public television, used to raise money. -- Hall h Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. -- O'Neill h Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. h Behold the warranty: The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. h Being a good communicator means people find out what's really wrong with you. h Being a pilot is a hard way to earn an easy living. h Being a woman is quite difficult since it consists mainly of dealing with men. h Being normal is driving me crazy. h Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you. h Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. h Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards. h Best gift for the person who has everything: A burglar alarm. h Best place to take a leak. -- sign in radiator shop h Better living through denial. h Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West h Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie. h Beware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose. h Beware of low-flying butterflies. h Beware of Natural Selection. -- Bob Thaves h Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. h Billboard: Keep your eyes on the road and stop reading these signs. h Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. h Biological Science: A contradiction in terms. h Biology grows on you. h Birth control pills are tax-deductible, but only if they fail. -- Dear Abby h Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. h Black holes were created when God divided by zero! h Blamestorming: A group figuring out who was responsible for a failure. h Blessed are the brief, for they shall have lower phone bills. h Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the Earth. h Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover h Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels. h Blood flows down one leg and up the other. h Bluntness: The art of saying nothing in a way that leaves nothing unsaid. h Boat: A hole in the water into which one throws money. h Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. -- Ambrose Bierce h Bore: He who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about yourself. h Bore: The kind of man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. -- Pollock h Bore: Wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary. -- Winchell h Born free... Taxed to death. h Born to shop! h Boss spelled backwards is, "double S.O.B." -- Reid Stanley h Bozone: Substance surrounding idiots that stops bright ideas from penetrating. h Brad, where Tad had had "had had", had had "had". "Had had" had had me glad. h Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever. h Brain: The apparatus with which we think that we think. -- Ambrose Bierce h Breeding rabbits is a hare raising experience. h Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. h Brigands ask for your money or your life; spouses require them both. h Broad-mindedness: The result of flattening high-mindedness out. h Budget: A method for going broke methodically. h Budget: A method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. h Budget: Mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. -- Latimer h Bumper sticker on an old truck: Don't Laugh -- Your Daughter Might Be In Here. h Bumper sticker, Dec 2000: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Al Gore... I Think. h Bumper sticker: Don't Honk, I'm Pedaling as Fast as I Can. h Bumper sticker: Forget about World Peace... Visualize using your turn signal. h Bumper sticker: Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican. h Bumper sticker: Horn broken. Watch for finger. h Bumper sticker: Hug Your Kids at Home and Belt Them in the Car. h Bumper sticker: I Brake for Hallucinations. h Bumper sticker: I'd rather be teleporting. h Bumper sticker: If you can read this, I can hit my brakes and sue you. h Bumper sticker: My Child Can Beat Up Your Honor Student. h Bumper sticker: Stamp out crime; Abolish the IRS. h Bumper sticker: Your kid might be an honors student, but you're still an idiot. h Bureaucracy: A method of transforming energy into solid waste. h Bureaucrat: A person who cuts red tape sideways. -- J. McCabe h Bureaucrat: A politician with tenure. h Bureaucratic organization is like a septic tank: Big chunks rise to the top. h Business before pleasure unless pleasure is your business. h Business will be either better or worse. -- Calvin Coolidge h But enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me? -- Midler h But officer, I stopped for the last one, and it was green! h But two in the bush are more FUN than one in the hand! h Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it. h By self-pollination, the farmer might get a flock of long-haired sheep. h By the time you have the right answers, no one is asking you questions. h Cabnicreep: When closing one kitchen cabinet causes another to open. h California is proud to be the home of the freeway. -- Ronald Reagan h Californians are not without their faults. h Calling a person a runner-up is a polite way of saying they lost. h Can a man do no worse than to fall in love? h Can I yell "movie" in a crowded firehouse? h Can you be a closet claustrophobic? h Can you think of another word for "synonym"? h Candy / is dandy / but liquor / is quicker. -- Ogden Nash h Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win. h Car service: If it ain't broke, we'll break it. h Career plans: "I want to rule the world." -- Madonna h Careful planning will never replace dumb luck. h Carpe diem dulcis: Seize a nice day! -- The Covert Comic h Carpenters (and pilots) are just plane folks. h Cashtration: Buying a house renders you financially impotent for a long time. h Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. h Cauterize: Made eye contact with a woman. h Caution: Breathing might be hazardous to your health. h Celibacy is hereditary. h Chainsaw consultant: An outside expert brought in to fire employees. h Change is great... You go first. h Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. h Character density: The number of very weird people in the office. h Charity: A thing that begins at home and usually stays there. h Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the organ of the species. h Charm: A way of getting a "yes" -- without having asked any clear question. h Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. -- Aldous Huxley h Cheap: Much less expensive than ones selling for up to twice as much. h Chemicals: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. h Chicken Little was right. h Children act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. h Children are a nine month illness and a lifetime convalescence. -- Benito Galdos h Children are beloved sources of dirty laundry and ceaseless noise. -- Bill Cosby h Chocolate has a side effect: It makes your clothes shrink. -- Cie Scott h Choconiverous: Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first. h Choice is good. Except for those people who choose poorly. -- Bob Proulx h Cinemuck: Popcorn, soda, and candy that covers the floors of movie theaters. h Circle: A line that meets its other end without ending. h Citation: Reputation by repetition. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck h Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to revocation without notice. -- Will Durant h Cleaning one's ears should be done in private using one's OWN truck keys. h Cleanliness is next to impossible. h Clients who pay the least complain the most. h Climate: What you expect. Weather: What you get. h Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery. h Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. h Cogito Eggo sum. (I think, therefore I am a waffle.) h Cogito ergo spud. (I think, therefore I yam.) h Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. -- Albert Einstein h College: The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. h Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. h Come in and buy what your grandparents threw away. -- antique store h Come up and see me sometime when I've nothing but the wireless on. -- Mae West h Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. -- Peter Ustinov h Comets are like cats: They have tails and do what they want. -- David Levy h Committee: People who keep minutes and waste hours. -- Milton Berle h Committee: The unwilling, selected from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. h Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. -- Albert Einstein h Compromise: A deal in which two people get what neither of them want. h Concentrated bases are much more dangerous since YOU are soluble in them. h Concept: Any "idea" for which an outside consultant bills more than $25,000. h Concern is the first time you can't do it the second time. -- Isaac Asimov h Conference: Where many people gather to decide nothing can be done alone. h Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career. h Confidence: The feeling you have before you understand the situation. h Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. h Confound those who have said our remarks before us. -- Aelius Donatus h Confucius say too much. -- recent Chinese proverb h Congress is not the sole suppository of wisdom. -- Rep. Bill Schuette (R-MI) h Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken h Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -- Mencken h Conscience is the thing that hurts when everything else feels great. h Conscious is being aware of something; conscience is wishing you weren't. h Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. h Conservative: A Liberal who has just been mugged. h Conservative: A man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. -- Woodrow Wilson h Conservative: A person who believes nothing should be done for the first time. h Conservative: One who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. h Consider what might be fertilizing the greener grass across the fence. h Consultant: Someone who knowns 101 ways to make love, but can't get a date. h Consultation: Medical term meaning "to share the wealth." h Contents: One universe. Some assembly required. -- Bob Thaves h Continental Life. Why do you ask? h Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. h Coordinator: Brings organized chaos out of regimented confusion. h Coordinator: The guy with his desk between two expediters. h Corduroy pillows are making headlines. h Correct to within an order of magnitude: Wrong. h Cosmetics are a woman's way of keeping a man from reading between the lines. h Could you be a poster child for retroactive birth control? h Courage: Two cannibals having oral sex. h Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. -- Bierce h Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!! h Credit is what keeps you from knowing how far past broke you are. h Crime does not pay... As well as politics. -- A. E. Newman h Criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage. h Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. -- Steve Wright h Culture is for bacteria. -- Christopher Hyatt h Customers are beautiful people. Listen to them. -- Richard Whitley h Cut to measurements; file to shape; hammer to fit. h Cynic: A person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Shoaff h Cynic: A person who tells you the truth about your own motives. -- Russel Green h Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. h Danger! I drive like you do. h Dare to be average. h Dark dirt is attracted to light objects, and light dirt to dark objects. h Dating is never easy for engineers. -- Scott Adams h De-access your euphemisms. h Death and taxes are inevitable; at least death doesn't get worse every year. h Death comes to all men, but some just can't wait. -- Darwin Awards h Death has been proven to be 99% fatal to laboratory rats. h Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wiseguy. h Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. -- R. Geis h Death is often a good career move for an author. -- Nassim Taleb h Death is the greatest kick of all. That's why they save it for last. h Death: To stop sinning suddenly. -- Elbert Hubbard h Defense attorney's ad: Reasonable Doubt At Reasonable Prices. h Deja Fu: The feeling that you have been kicked in the head like this before. h Deja Moo: The feeling that you have heard this BS before. h Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. h Deliberation: Examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. h Democracy is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken h Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line. -- Karen Tumulty h Demons are a ghoul's best friend. h Dentists are incapable of asking questions that need a simple yes or no answer. h Design simplicity: Developed on a shoe-string budget. h Despite treatment, the patient improved. h Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines on them and makes them perspire. h Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Dogs are man's best friend. Who's smarter? h Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it. h Difference between a garbage dump and a sanitary landfill: About $20 a load. h Difference between artist and craftsman: A craftsman knows what he's doing. h Dijon vu -- the same mustard as before. h Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off. h Dinosaurs were calm because they lived in pre-hysteric times. h Diplomacy: Saying "go to hell" such that they look forward to the trip. h Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else have your way. h Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. h Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. h Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art. h Disconfect: Blowing on a piece of candy retrieved from the floor. h Disguise your feelings when you put your relatives on the plane for home. h Distinctive: A different color or shape than our competitors. h Diversity's fine; subscribe to mine. h Divorce is having your genitals torn off through your wallet. -- Robin Williams h Divorced: Post-graduate in the School of Love. h Do as I say, not as I do. h Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift? h Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites? h Do I strike you as a violent person? -- Brian Hammer h Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? h Do married people live longer, or does it just seem that way? h Do not be led astray onto the path of virtue. h Do not drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill it! h Do not drink coffee in the morning or it will keep you awake until noon. h Do not judge a book by its movie. h Do not kiss an elephant on the lips today. h Do not let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance. h Do not merely believe in miracles; rely on them. -- Finagle h Do not put statements in the negative form. -- William Safire h Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. -- Schmich h Do not repeat yourself or say what you have said before. h Do not suffer from insanity. Enjoy every minute of it. h Do not tell big lies. Small ones can be just as effective. h Do not underestimate the power of the Force. h Do not use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. h Do not use a foreign term when there is an adequate English quid pro quo. h Do not use contractions in formal writing. h Do not use hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it effectively. h Do not worry about temptation. As you grow older, it starts avoiding you. h Do unto others as they wish to do unto you, but do it first. -- Mayor Curley h Do unto others before they undo you. h Do you ever stop to think and then forget to start again? h Do you find yourself thinking more and enjoying it less? h Do you have lysdexia? h Do YOU have redeeming social value? h Do you think much about dying? No, it's the last thing I want to do. -- Abby h Does fuzzy logic tickle? h Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell? h Does this hurt? How about now? -- Scott Adams h Dog wisdom: Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. h Dog wisdom: When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. h Dog wisdom: When you are happy, dance around and wag your entire body. h Doing nothing is the something I do best. -- Richard Sherman h Doing nothing makes you tired because you can't take a break. h Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you. -- Tom Magliozzi h Don't be fooled by his twinkling eyes; it's the sun shining between his ears. h Don't be humble... You're not that great. -- Golda Meir h Don't bother me, I'm living happily ever after. h Don't create a problem for which you do not have the answer. -- Burke h Don't do anything in public that you wouldn't do in private. h Don't do anything you'll regret having not done sooner. h Don't eat the yellow snow. h Don't force it, get a larger hammer. -- Anthony h Don't forget to never use negative commands. h Don't get even -- get odd! -- Steve Bhaerman h Don't get stuck in a closet; wear yourself out. h Don't give someone a piece of your mind unless you can afford it. h Don't go away mad... Just go away! h Don't lend people money... It gives them amnesia. h Don't make me come down there... -- God h Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb h Don't mind him; politicians always sound like that. h Don't open bills on the weekend. -- H. Jackson Brown h Don't overuse exclamation marks! -- William Safire h Don't panic, but do you believe in reincarnation? -- Bob Thaves h Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. -- Joel, age 10 h Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church. h Don't say yes until I finish talking. -- Darryl Zanuck h Don't steal. The government hates competition. h Don't sweat the petty things -- just pet the sweaty things. h Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive. -- Hubbard h Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree. -- Russell Long h Don't tell me not to burn the candle at both ends; tell me how to get more wax! h Don't undertake vast projects with half-vast ideas. h Don't use no double negatives, not never. h Don't vote -- it only encourages them! h Don't wear your glasses on a blind date. You'll look better, and he will too. h Don't worry, if everything worked right you'd be out of a job. h Don't worry; the brontosaurus is slow, stupid, and placid. h Don't you hate it when you lock your keys out of your car? -- Scott Adams h Don't you have anything more useful you could be doing? h Dopelar effect: How stupid ideas seem smarter if they come at you fast. h Down with the categorical imperative! h Dress for radio. -- Swami Beyondananda h Drilling for oil is boring. h Drive carefully. We are overstocked. -- sign in junkyard h Drive on ice no faster than you want to hit something. h Driving in the snow is a spectator sport. h Drug: A substance that, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper. h Drugs are the scenic route to nowhere. h Ducks? What ducks?? h Due to a mixup in Urology, orange juice will not be served this morning. h Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert. h Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. h Dyslexics of the world, untie! -- Andrew Jamner h Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. h Early to bed and early to rise, 'til I make enough to otherwise. h Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead. h Earth Destroyed by Solar Flare -- Film at eleven. h Earth got a lot more interesting once it went multicellular. h Earth is a great funhouse without the fun. -- Jeff Berner h Easiest way to figure the cost of living: Take your income and add ten percent. h Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you that day. h Eat yogurt and get culture. h Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow it might be illegal. h Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we diet. -- Lewis Henry h Ecology: The study of who eats whom. h Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. h Education helps earning capacity. Ask any college professor. h Education: That which enables you to get into more intelligent trouble. h Eeny, Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak... h Efficiency: Getting someone to do the work you don't like to do. h Egocentric: A person who believes he is everything you know you are. h Egotism: Doing a crossword puzzle with a pen. h Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers. h Either do wrong or feel guilty, but don't do both. -- Rudolf Dreikurs h Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -- last words of Groucho Marx h Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. -- last words of Oscar Wilde h Elbonics: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater. h Elections come and go, but politics are always with us. h Electricity comes from electrons; morality comes from morons. h Elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. h Eliminate government waste, no matter how much it costs! h Eloquence is logic on fire. h Employees enjoy the illusion of security; contractors, of independence. h Emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead. h Emus cannot walk backwards. h Energizer Bunny arrested -- charged with battery. h Engineers are widely recognized as superior marriage material. -- Scott Adams h Engineers can actually hear machines talk to them. -- Scott Adams h Engineers have problems that ordinary people don't. -- Catherine Grow h Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. -- Scott Adams h Engineers... They love to change things. -- Leonard McCoy MD h Enjoy life; you could have been a barnacle. h Enough research will tend to support your theory. h Entropy isn't what it used to be. h Epigram: Half-truth stated so as to irritate people who believe the other half. h Epitaph: A postponed compliment. h Eschew obfuscation. h Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. -- Woody Allen h Even a genius can have an off-day. -- Wile E. Coyote h Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. h Even if you can't get a date, avoid kidnapping; it's bad for your reputation. h Every baby resembles the relative with the most money. -- James Hastings h Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. h Every day more money is printed for the Monopoly game than for the US Treasury. h Every four minutes a woman has a baby. Find this woman and stop her! h Every instructor assumes you have nothing else to do but study for that class. h Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. h Every lazybones deserves a kick in his can'ts. h Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own. h Every morning is the dawn of a new error. h Every silver lining has a cloud around it. h Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the window. h Every time I lose weight, it finds me again. h Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. -- Lieberman h Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. -- Warner h Everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -- Atwood h Everyone gets lots of fertilizer; but what you plant is up to you. h Everyone has a photographic memory, but some do not have film. h Everyone is a genius. It is just that some people are too stupid to realize it. h Everyone is entitled to my opinion. h Everyone needs belief in something. I believe I'll have another beer. h Everyone stopping by with unsought advice will see your mistake. h Everyone's crazy but you and me, and I've been wondering about you lately. h Everyone's thinking part wonders what the part not thinking isn't thinking of. h Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous". h Everything coming your way? You're in the wrong lane! h Everything goes on sale... Right after you buy it. h Everything going good? You must have overlooked something. h Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes it's your bad decision. h Everything in moderation, including moderation. h Everything is actually everything else, just recycled. h Everything is always done for the wrong reasons. -- O'Brian h Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. -- Simon h Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Duell, patent commissioner h Everything worthwhile is mandatory, prohibited, or taxed. h Everything you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out. h Excellent day to have a rotten day. h Exceptions always outnumber rules. h Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget. -- Miller h Exclusive: We are the only ones who have the documentation. h Executive ability: Deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. h Exercise extends your life ten years, but you spend 15 of them doing it. h Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -- Jones h Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. -- Horner h Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. -- Olivier h Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. h Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail the same way. h Expert: A person one step ahead of a non-expert. h Expert: A person who creates confusion out of simplicity. h Expert: Avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. h Expert: Knows tomorrow why today's prediction failed. h f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd. h Failure is not an option, it's an employee stock purchase plan. -- The Covert Comic h Fairy tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. h Falling in love is awfully simple. Falling out of love is simply awful. h Familiarity breeds attempt. h Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain h Families can choose between keeping up with their neighbors or their creditors. h Famous last words: Don't worry, I can handle it. h Fanatic: Someone who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his efforts. h Farmer: A man who is outstanding in his field. h Fashion: A form of ugliness so intolerable that it changes every six months. h Fast, Cheap, Good: Choose any two. h Faunacated: How wildlife ends up when its environment is destroyed. h Fear is nature's warning sign to get busy. -- Henry Link h Federal Reserve: A reserve where federal employees hunt wild game. h Feel good? Don't worry, you'll get over it. h Felix navidad. (Our cat has a boat.) h Fenderberg: Deposit that forms on the inside of a car fender after a snowstorm. h Fertility is an inherited trait that never skips a generation. -- Bob Thaves h Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. h Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. h Field tested: Manufacturing doesn't have a test system. h Fill what's empty; empty what's full; scratch where it itches. -- Longworth h Finance: Passing money from one hand to another until it finally disappears. h Financial manager: Someone who keeps investing your money until it's all gone. h Fine day for friends. So-so day for you. h First things first, but not necessarily in that order. h Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. -- Marquis h Fishing: A jerk at one end of the line waiting for a jerk at the other end. h Fits like a sock on a duck's nose. h Five days a week, my body is a temple. The other two, it's an amusement park. h Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity. -- Robert Firth h Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. h Flabbergasted: Appalled over how much weight you have gained. h Flashlight: A container for holding dead batteries. h Flopcorn: The unpopped kernels at the bottom of the cooker. h Flying is the second greatest experience known to man. Landing is the first. h Flying small aircraft makes everything else seem cheap by comparison. -- Alan Silverstein h Foodwinking: Giving exotic names to otherwise mundane food products. h Foolproof operation: No provision for adjustment. h Fools rush in -- and get the best seats in the house. h Football, like religion, brings out the best in people. -- Larry Chapman h For a good time, call 555-3100. h For adult education, nothing beats children. h For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead. h For back-country preparedness, "what if" weighs about 20 pounds. h For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction. -- Anthony Battista h For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. -- Harrison h For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. -- Main h For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. h For every knee, there is a jerk. h For NASA, space is still a high priority. -- Dan Quayle h For nosebleed: Put the nose much lower than the body. h For people who like peace and quiet: A phoneless cord. h For people who like that kind of book, that is the kind of book they will like. h For sale: Secondhand tombstone. Good buy for a person named Murphy. h For some reason, this statement reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz. h For things to stay the same, many things must change. h For this, I spent all those years in college? h For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. h Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself that leads to sex. h Form follows function, and often obliterates it. h Fortune favors the lucky. -- Tom Weller h Fossil flowers come from the Petrified Florist. h Four kinds of homicide: Felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy... h Four wheel drive: Lets you get more stuck, further from help. h Free love is priced right. -- Edward Abbey h Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting. -- Alan Foster h Frequent naps prevent old age, especially if taken while driving. h Friction is a drag. h Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same. -- Hubbard h Friends don't let friends beer goggle. h Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. h Friends: People who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. -- Robinson h Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. h Frisbeetarianism: Belief that when dead, your soul gets stuck up on the roof. h Front seat children cause accidents; back seat accidents cause children. h Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded... h Furbling: Walking a maze of ropes even when you are the only person in line. h Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. -- Wilson Mizner h Garmites: Clothing that fits well in the store but shrinks on the way home. h Gee, I thought we'd be a lot higher at MECO! -- Hawley, STS 41-D pad abort, 1984 h Genderplex: Trying to determine from the cutesy pictures which restroom to use. h Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance. -- Murray h Generica: Mass-produced identical stores, etc. throughout America. h Genetics: Why you look like your father, or if you don't, why you should. h Genius is the infinite capacity for picking brains. h Genius: A chemist who discovers a laundry additive that rhymes with "bright". h Gentleman farmer: One who has more hay in the bank than in the barn. h Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't. h Geometry teaches us to bisex angles. h Get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there. h Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Twain h Getting from A to B often requires visiting C through Z. -- Alan Silverstein h Getting old is NOT for sissies. -- Andy Hill h Giraffes have no vocal cords. h Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. h Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough. -- Edward Abbey h Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. -- Mae West h Give a man enough rope and he will lasso another woman. h Give a skeptic an inch and he'll measure it. h Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I'll break my lever. h Give me a place to sit, and I'll watch. h Give me a sleeping pill and tell me your troubles. h Give me ambiguity or give me something else. h Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. -- St. Augustine h Give your child mental blocks for Christmas. h Give your very best today. Heaven knows it is little enough. h Giving away baby clothes and furniture is the major cause of pregnancy. h Gleemites: Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks. h Glibido: All talk and no action. h Go away. I'm all right. -- last words of H. G. Wells h Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. h Go soothingly in the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon. h Go to Heaven for the climate but Hell for the company. -- Mark Twain h God could create everything in six days because he had no installed base. h God could not be everywhere; therefore he made mothers. h God created the Midwest to keep California 3000 miles away. h God divided things evenly: He gave food to the rich and appetite to the poor. h God don't make mistakes. That's how He got to be God. -- Archie Bunker h God gave us two ears and one mouth. That ought to tell us something. h God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. -- Addison Mizner h God has no real style, he just goes on trying other things. -- Pablo Picasso h God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves. h God help us, we're in the hands of engineers. -- Ian Malcom, "Jurassic Park" h God invented marijuana. Man invented beer. Who do you trust? h God is a low-impact camper. h God is a polytheist. h God is an extremely uneven writer, but when he's good, nobody can touch him. h God is dead. (Nietzsche) Nietzsche is dead. (God) Nietzsche is God. (the Dead) h God is my co-pilot, but the devil is my bombardier. h God is not dead. He is alive and autographing Bibles at Cody's! h God is not dead. He is alive and working on a much less ambitious project. h God is not dead. He just couldn't find a parking place. h God is religion. Love is biology. And sex is physics. h God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. h God made the idiot for practice, and then he made the School Board. -- Twain h God made the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh. h God must love the common man -- he made so many of them. h God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him. h God, I ask for patience -- and I want it right now! h Going the speed of light is bad for your age. h Gold: A metal men dig out of holes for dentists and governments to put back in. h Golf is like masturbation -- fun to do, but disgusting to watch. h GOLF: Game Of Limitless Frustration. -- Bobbie Piety h Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks. -- Adams h Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. h Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. h Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance. h Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a good day. h Good sopranos and tenors have resonance -- where others have brains. h Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- last words of George Saunders h Got mole problems? Call Avogadro: 6.02 x 10^23. h Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some. -- Wiker h Governmental machinery: Labor-saving device, lets ten men do the work of one. h Grad school is the snooze button on the alarm clock of life. -- Jim Squire h Graduate life: It's not just a job, it's an indenture. h Graft: An illegal means of uniting trees to make money. h Grasshoppotamus: A creature that can leap to tremendous heights... Once. h Gravity: What you get when you eat too much and too fast. h Great leaders are rare, so I'm following myself. h Great minds run in great circles. h Grocery store wanted ad: Perishable Employee Needed. Experience Required. h Group IQ: Lowest IQ of any member divided by the number of people in the group. h Growing old is inevitable, but growing up is optional. h Grub first, then ethics. -- Bertolt Brecht h Guests who kill talk show hosts -- On the last Geraldo. h Gymnastics exercises our outsides while genetics exercises our insides. h Had there been an actual emergency, you would no longer be here. h Hailing frequencies open, Captain. h Half of the people you know are below average. h Half of what we taught you is wrong -- and we don't know which half. -- Neifert h Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was rather large. h Hangover: The wrath of grapes. h Happiness is a ball in the fairway. h Happiness is an inside job. -- Carolyn Myss h Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. -- Ogden Nash h Happiness is your mother-in-law's picture on the back of a milk carton. h Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now. h Hard work might be respectable, but that doesn't make it popular. h Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? h Harlez-vous francais? (Can you drive a French motorcycle?) h Have a good laughsitive twice a day, and that will ensure regularhilarity. h Have an adequate day. h Have an ordinary day. h Have you flogged your crew today? h Have you noticed that most one-liners do not fit on one line? -- Sundqvist h Haven't you got anyone better to do? h Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. h Having children will turn you into your parents. h He got in touch with reality, but it was a bad connection. -- Bob Thaves h He had delusions of adequacy. -- Walter Kerr h He had insomnia so bad that he couldn't sleep when he was working. -- Baer h He hadn't a single redeeming vice. -- Oscar Wilde h He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. -- Oscar Wilde h He has the heart of a little child... It's in a jar on his desk. h He is a player who can be relied upon to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. h He is considered a most graceful speaker who can say nothing in the most words. h He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. h He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. -- Johnson h He is so short he has to reach up to tie his shoes. h He is so skinny he has to run around in the shower to get wet. h He is such a steady worker that he is really motionless. h He is the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. -- Mae West h He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. -- Oscar Wilde h He leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in. -- Oscar Wilde h He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered. h He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. -- Forrest Tucker h He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. h He speaks Esperanto like a native. -- Martha Freedman h He that loves law will get his fill of it. h He was a suitor for her hand, but he did not suit her. h He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. h He who believes the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. h He who dies with the most toys has spent the most time on maintenance. -- Dix h He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead. h He who dies with the most toys, wins. h He who enters the contest is optimistic as submarine with screen doors. h He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last. h He who has had has been but he who has not been has been had. h He who hesitates is a damned fool. -- Mae West h He who hesitates is last. -- Mae West h He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit. h He who hesitates is probably right. h He who hoots with owls by night cannot soar with eagles by day. h He who invents adages to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise. h He who is born to misfortune falls on his back and fractures his nose. h He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. h He who is still laughing hasn't yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht h He who knows all the answers never gets asked the questions. h He who laughs last didn't get the joke. h He who laughs last is probably your boss. h He who laughs last thinks slowest. h He who reads many fortunes gets confused. h He who shouts the loudest has the floor. -- Swipple h He who speak with forked tongue, not need chopsticks. -- Chinese proverb h He who spends a storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT. h Headline: 20-Year Friendship Ends at Altar h Headline: Antique Stripper to Display Wares at Store h Headline: Autos Killing 110 a Day -- Let's Resolve to Do Better h Headline: Blind Bishop Appointed to See h Headline: Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years h Headline: Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures h Headline: Croupiers on Strike -- Management: "No Big Deal" h Headline: Diaper Market Bottoms Out h Headline: Fund Set Up for Beating Victim's Kin h Headline: Half of U.S. High Schools Require Some Study for Graduation h Headline: Henshaw Offers Rare Opportunity to Goose Hunters h Headline: If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While h Headline: Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant h Headline: Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years h Headline: L.A. Voters Approve Urban Renewal by Landslide h Headline: Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advice h Headline: Lingerie Shipment Hijacked -- Thief Gives Police the Slip h Headline: March Planned for Next August h Headline: Nicaragua Sets Goal to Wipe Out Literacy h Headline: Patient at Death's Door -- Doctors Pull Him Through h Headline: Prostitutes Appeal to Pope h Headline: Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped h Headline: Stadium Air Conditioning Fails -- Fans Protest h Headline: Teacher Strikes Idle Kids h Headline: War Dims Hope For Peace h Headline: Women's Movement Called More Broad-Based h Heads they win, tails you lose. h Health is just keeping well; hygiene is being clean about it. h Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. h Hearsay: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word. h Heat expands: In the summer the days are longer. h Heating with wood, you get warm twice: Once chopping it, and once stacking it. h Heavy: Seduced by the chocolate side of the force. h HECK is where people go when they don't believe in GOSH! h Heineken Uncertainty Principle: Never sure how many beers you had last night. h Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. h Heisenberg might have been here. h Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman h Help fight continental drift. h Help stamp out and abolish redundancy. h Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. h HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN! -- E. E. CUMMINGS h Her kisses left something to be desired -- the rest of her. h Here are the opinions on which my facts are based. h Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes? h Here is champagne to our real friends, and real pain to our sham friends. h Hi, my name's Ron, how do you like me so far? h Highbrow: A man who has discovered something more interesting than women. h Hippoposthumous: A deceased hippopotamus. -- Bob Thaves h Hire the morally handicapped. h His mind is like a steel trap: Full of mice. -- Foghorn Leghorn h His work is very poor, but at least it's slow. h History chronicles the small portion of the past that was suitable for print. h History does not repeat itself; historians merely repeat each other. h History not only repeats itself, it increasingly forgets where it put its keys. -- The Covert Comic h History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history. h Hit and run means never having to say you're sorry. h Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness you send out for it. -- Rex Reed h Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. h Home is where the house is. h Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all. -- Howell h Honesty is the best policy -- there is less competition. h Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. h Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. -- Hubbard h Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy h Honeymoon: A thrill of a wife time. h Honeymoon: The vacation a man takes before beginning work under a new boss. h Honk if you base your life on advice from bumper stickers. -- Bob Thaves h Honk if you love peace and quiet. h Hors d'oeuvres: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. h Horse sense: The thing a horse has that keeps it from betting on people. h Horsepower: How fast you hit the wall. Torque: How far the wall comes with you. h Hospitality: Making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were. h Hotdogs are best served with a ballgame. h Housework won't kill you. But then again, why take the chance? -- Phyllis Diller h How about never? Is never good for you? h How can I miss you if you won't go away? h How can someone "draw a blank"? h How can there be self-help groups? h How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle h How come wrong numbers are never busy? h How did a fool and his money get together in the first place? h How do they get all those little metal bits on a zipper to line up so well? h How do they get deer to cross at the yellow road signs? h How do you explain school to a higher intelligence? -- Elliot h How do you keep a dummy in suspense? h How do you make an elephant float? Two scoops of elephant and some rootbeer... h How long is a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on. h How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to reach the ground. -- Lincoln h How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb? All you can afford. h How many light bulb jokes does it take to change the subject? h How many weeks are there in a light year? h How much sin can you get away with and still go to heaven? h How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? h How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent. h How to paint a perfect painting: Make yourself perfect, then paint naturally. h How to regain your virginity: Reverse the process until it returns. h How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. h Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill. h Human nature will eventually reach perfection; we should enjoy ourselves now. h Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. h Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs. h Humor is the best antidote to reality. h Humorists: Those who can talk sensibly about a controversy. h Husbands are like fires; they go out when they're unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor h I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met. h I am a creationist; I refuse to believe that I could have evolved from humans. h I am a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor h I am a Hollywood writer, so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain. h I am a Libra. Libras don't believe in astrology. -- Al Hibbs h I am a nutritional overachiever. h I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. -- A. Whitney Brown h I am ashamed to be here, but not ashamed enough to leave. h I am at one with my duality. h I am defending her honor, which is more than she ever did. h I am dying beyond my means. -- last words of Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne h I am dying with the help of too many physicians. -- Alexander the Great h I am going to live forever, or die trying! -- Spider Robinson h I am having an out of money experience. h I am Homer from BORG, prepare to be assim... Oooh, donuts! h I am in shape... Round is a shape! h I am looking for myself. Have you seen me lately? h I am neither for nor against apathy. h I am not a complete idiot, some parts are missing! h I am not a crook. -- Richard Nixon h I am not a lovable man. -- Richard Nixon h I am not a perfectionist, but my parents were. h I am not an Economist. I am an honest man! -- Paul McCracken h I am not as dumb as you look. h I am not cynical, just experienced. h I am not deaf, I'm ignoring you. h I am not eating, so I must be asleep. -- John Taylor h I am not living in the past -- I'm just paying for it. h I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. -- Dan Quayle h I am not playing hard to get; I AM hard to get. h I am not prejudiced, I hate everyone equally. h I am not sure what this is, but an "F" would only dignify it. -- English prof h I am not young enough to know everything. -- J. M. Barrie h I am out of bed and dressed. What more do you want? h I am prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life. h I am really enjoying not talking to you, so let's not talk again real soon, OK? h I am sorry, but I'm not going to apologize. h I am the mommy, that's why! h I am the mother of all things, and all things should wear a sweater. h I am the person your mother warned you about. h I am woman, I am invincible, I am tired... h I awoke one morning and found myself famous. -- Byron h I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner h I believe I am God, but can't prove my own existence. h I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers h I bet you have never seen a plumber bite his nails. h I bid you all a very heartfelt goodnight. -- Johnny Carson, last Tonight show h I blame sex and paper for most of our current problems. -- Scott Adams h I bother to show up for work because beer isn't free. h I bought a vacuum cleaner six months ago, and so far it's just gathering dust. h I bought my boyfriend a waterbed, but we drifted apart. h I bought some powdered water... But I didn't know what to add. -- Steven Wright h I brake for brick walls. h I came to MIT to get an education for myself and a diploma for my mother. h I came, I saw, I had no idea what was going on, so I left. -- Dick Ross h I can only please one person each day. Today's not your day. Maybe tomorrow. h I can relate to that. h I can resist everything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde h I can see clearly now, the brain is gone... h I can't believe you are the result of millions of years of evolution. -- Cate h I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma. -- the Wizard of Oz h I can't help hearing, but I don't always listen. -- George Burns, "Oh God" h I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one. h I can't win enough to excite me, but I can lose enough to depress me. -- Kenny Rogers ("The Gambler") h I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy. -- John Steinbeck h I couldn't have said that longer myself. -- John Taylor h I decided success would be making just one person happy. I picked me. -- Thaves h I did not believe in reincarnation the last time either. h I did not fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian. h I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. h I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. h I do desire we may be better strangers. -- William Shakespeare h I do most of my work sitting down; that is where I shine. -- Robert Blenchey h I do not believe in afterlife, but I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Allen h I don't ask questions, I just have fun! -- Bugs Bunny h I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating. h I don't date outside my species. h I don't have a license to kill... I have a learner's permit. h I don't have a problem with San Francisco parking. I drive a forklift. h I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem. h I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h I don't know what my expectations are until they're not met. -- Chuck Lorre h I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. h I don't know where I am, but I'm not too far back. -- Alan Silverstein h I don't know whether to kill myself or go bowling. h I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves. -- Joe Louis h I don't love my mother, I just hate her less than everyone else. h I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Rogers h I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier. h I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison h I doubt, therefore I might be. h I drank what? -- Socrates h I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Nathan h I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. h I embrace poverty. To annoy me, send money. h I feel like a million tonight, but one at a time. -- Mae West h I feel more like I do now than I did a little while ago. h I finally got my head together, but now my body is falling apart. h I get enough exercise just pushing my luck! h I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. -- Mencken h I googled the quote, "Power means not having to respond." Nothing happened. -- The Covert Comic h I graduated first in my class from alibi school. -- Jeffrey McDaniel h I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. -- Henny Youngman h I hate quotations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson h I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. -- Will Durst h I have already told you more than I know. h I have always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane. h I have been in more laps than a napkin. -- Mae West h I have been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is 14 days. h I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. h I have found that children remember only what they want to. -- Bill Cosby h I have found that the best direction for a hot tub to face is up. -- Dave Barry h I have given up reading books; it takes my mind off myself. h I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx h I have heard about people like me, but I never made the connection. -- McLean h I have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened. -- Mark Twain h I have no problems with God; it's his fan club that bothers me! h I have not seen as far as others because giants were standing on my shoulders. h I have seen that pattern on wallpaper before, but never on clothing. h I have seen the evidence... I want DIFFERENT evidence. h I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. -- Albran h I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. h I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde h I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. -- John D. Rockefeller h I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. -- Susan Sontag h I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it. h I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her. h I hope my record gets out before the world blows up. -- Madonna h I hope you receive all the letters I mean to write. h I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest h I just want revenge. Is that so wrong? h I keep on making the same misttakes. -- Christer Sundqvist h I know I am efficient. Tell me I am beautiful. h I know on which side my bread is buttered. -- John Heywood h I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. -- Steve Martin h I like cats, too. Let's exchange recipes. h I like it better in the dark. h I like looking at geniuses, and listening to beautiful people. -- Oscar Wilde h I like men who have a future and women who have a past. -- Oscar Wilde h I like the outsides of some things and the insides of others. -- Madonna h I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome h I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. h I live in my own little world, but that's OK, they know me here. h I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. -- Dan Quayle h I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. h I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy. h I love it when it stays light out until it gets dark. h I love mankind... It's people I hate. -- Schulz h I love my job; it's the work I can't stand. h I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her middle name was Always. h I may be human scum, but damn it, I'm still scum. -- The Covert Comic h I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong. -- Isaac Asimov h I may not be the world's greatest lover, but number seven's not bad. -- Allen h I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h I might be crazy, but I am not stupid. h I might not always be perfect, but I am always me. h I might not know what I am doing, but I know how to do it. h I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli h I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. -- Woolcott h I need a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. -- Dan Rome h I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -- Marx h I never heard a minute's silence like that. -- Glenn Hoddle h I never knew what happiness was until I got married... Then it was too late! h I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. h I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. -- George Shaw h I once put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time. -- Wright h I only like two kinds of men: Foreign and domestic. -- Mae West h I own and operate a ferocious ego. -- Bill Moyers h I plan on living forever. So far, so good. h I plead contemporary insanity. h I prefer beauty to brains because I can see better than I can think. h I promise we would only loose ten to twenty million TOPS! -- Dr. Strangelove h I really had to act; 'cause I didn't have any lines. -- Marilyn Chambers h I refuse to star in your psychodrama. h I reserve the right to die or resign without notice. -- Justice Harlan h I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. -- Steven Wright h I see time away from the refrigerator as exercise. -- Ellen Langer h I shot an arrow into the air and it stuck. -- graffiti in Los Angeles h I should've bought a CATCHING license instead of a FISHING license! -- Saiff h I sort of always get low-grade mystical experiences. -- Carolyn Myss h I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. -- Steve Wright h I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. -- Dan Quayle h I stared Mother Nature in the face, and she smiled back. -- Doug Baskins h I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left. -- R.E. Atkinson h I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: Let the Wookee win. -- CP30 h I think I am a sexual threat. -- Madonna h I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. -- Steven Wright h I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it. h I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. -- Ogden Nash h I think we are all Bozos on this bus. h I think, therefore I am paid. h I think, therefore I am! I think? -- William Etkin h I think, therefore I am... Usually in a lot of trouble. h I think, therefore I'm single. -- Lizz Winstead h I thought growing old would take longer. h I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks. h I thought YOU were supposed to feed the dinosaurs! -- Bob Thaves h I took a break from not working so I could spend less time with my family. -- Roseanne Barr h I took an IQ test and the results were negative. h I typo ther fr I m. h I used to be a nun, but I kicked the habit. h I used to be a people person. People ruined this for me. h I used to be agnostic, but now I'm not so sure. -- John Kock h I used to be an adult before I grew up. h I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality. h I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. -- Boscoe Pertwee h I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost. h I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West h I used to get high on life, but lately I have built up a resistance. h I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. h I used to know that stuff. h I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. h I want buns of steel so I can hold up my pants with refrigerator magnets. h I want it all and I want it now. h I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen h I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job. -- George Bush h I was an expert parent. Then I had children. h I was dangerously boring. -- Scott Adams h I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know. h I was having a great day until I woke up. -- Richard Lewis h I went looking for trouble, and I found it. -- Charles Ponzi h I went on two diets at once because one diet wasn't giving me enough food. h I will always love the false image I had of you. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h I will meet you at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. h I will never lie to you. h I wish you happy New Year... But only one. -- Frederick Lonsdale h I worked in a pet shop and people kept asking how big I'd get. -- Dangerfield h I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. -- Groucho Marx h I would explain it to you but your brain would explode. h I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. h I would have made a good pope. -- Richard Nixon h I would know what to think if I knew who to believe. h I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in? h I would like to lick apricot brandy out of your navel. -- Cerebus h I would never join any club that would have the likes of me as a member. -- Marx h I would rather be an extemporaneous fool than a premeditated ass. h I would rather fish than eat, particularly eat fish. -- Corey Ford h I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac. h I wouldn't mind being poor if I had lots of money. h I wrote a friend a check for a negative amount, but he wouldn't cash it. h I wrote a song but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. -- Wright h I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. h I'd like to meet the person who invented sex, and see what he's working on now. h I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. h I'd rather walk through a fire than walk away from one. -- Madonna h I'll bet you $4,567 you can't guess how much I owe my bookie. h I'll give you a definite maybe. -- Samuel Goldwyn h I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. -- Miles Davis h I'll race you to China. You can have a head start. Ready, set, GO! h I'll tell you the meaning of life if you promise not to laugh. -- Bob Thaves h I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. h I'm a psychic amnesiac: I know in advance what I'll forget. -- Michael McShane h I'm going to commit suicide, or die trying. -- Michael Burgess h I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here? -- Harold Urey h I'm just working here till a good fast-food job opens up. h I'm leaving my body to science fiction. -- Roseanne Barr h I'm lost and out looking for myself. If I show up before I return, I'll wait. h I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more! h I'm not 27, I'm 12, with 15 years of experience. h I'm not a recovering chocoholic... Why would I want to be? h I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of falling. -- Darren Smith h I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Allen h I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week. h I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years. h I'm not going deaf. I'm ignoring you. h I'm not into working out. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain. h I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert. h I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. h I'm pretty good with BS but I love listening to an expert. Keep talking. h I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. h I'm smarter than the average bear! -- Yogi Bear h I'm still an atheist, thank God. -- Luis Bunuel h I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. -- Carvey h I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. -- Marilyn Monroe h I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better. -- Mae West h I've been things and done places. -- Mae West h I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. -- Cobb h I've only got one other speed, and it's slower. -- Glenn Ford h I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward h Ice cream cures all ills. Temporarily. -- Seleznick h Idiot box: Part of an envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp. h Idiots drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. h If "I am" is the shortest sentence in English, "I do" is the longest. h If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. h If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? h If a funeral procession is at night, do people drive with their lights off? h If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door. -- Adams h If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? h If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? h If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound? h If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. h If a tree wants to make a sound in a forest, must it fall to do so? -- Taylor h If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? h If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? h If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. h If all is not lost, where is it? h If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? h If all the world's a stage, I want some better lighting. h If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. -- Paul Beatty h If all the world's managers were laid end to end, it would be an improvement. h If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. h If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not $19.95. -- McGowan h If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linked verb is. -- William Safire h If aquarium gravel is bad for you, how come it tastes so good? -- Ralph Wiggum h If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. h If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. h If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. h If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. h If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. h If at first you don't succeed, you probably didn't really care anyway. h If at first you don't succeed, you'll get lots of advice. h If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. -- Leonard Levinson h If at first you don't succeed, your successor will. -- Lord Birdwood h If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? h If cats could talk, they'd say things like, "Hey, I don't see the problem here." h If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period of adolescence. h If drinking directly from a bottle, hold it with fingers covering the label. h If enough data is collected, anything can be proven by statistical methods. h If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from? h If flattery gets you nowhere, try bribery. h If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. h If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands. h If God is perfect, why did he create discontinuous functions? h If God is so great, how come everything he makes dies? -- George Carlin h If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all his windows. -- Yiddish proverb h If God meant for you to take life seriously, you would have no sense of humor. h If guns are outlawed, how will we shoot the liberals? h If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. -- Sue Grafton h If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. -- Lily Tomlin h If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought. -- Henry Cate h If I can't take it with me, I'm not going! h If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. -- Samuel Goldwyn h If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. h If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse -- as a man shoots himself. h If I follow you home, will you keep me? h If I had a life, I'd end it. h If I had a ruler, I'd beat you within an inch of your life. -- Groucho Marx h If I had any humility I would be perfect. -- Ted Turner h If I had known I would live so long, I would have taken better care of myself. -- Eubie Blake h If I have sex with my clone, will I go blind? h If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. -- John Wayne h If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell. -- Sheridan h If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? h If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms. h If I was under any more pressure, the carbon in my body would turn to diamonds. h If I were you, who would you be? h If I win the lottery I won't change, but my bad decisions will become epic. h If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: Resist hyperbole. h If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? h If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic. h If ignorance isn't bliss, I don't know what is. -- Craig Ewing h If in doubt, make it sound convincing. h If in doubt, mumble. h If it ain't broke, you're not trying hard enough. -- New Red Green Show h If it ain't damp, it ain't camp. h If it falls off, it doesn't matter. -- Tom Magliozzi h If it flies, floats, or fornicates, it is cheaper to rent. h If it is Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune. h If it is worth doing, it is worth doing for money. h If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. h If it looks easy, it's tough. If it looks tough, it's nearly impossible. h If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven. h If it wasn't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them. h If it wasn't for muscle spasms, I wouldn't get any exercise at all. h If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples. h If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done. h If it were truly the thought that counted, more women would be pregnant. h If it weren't for pick-pocketers I'd have no sex life at all. -- Dangerfield h If it's called tourist season, why can't we shoot them? -- George Carlin h If liberals really hated America -- they'd vote Republican! h If life gives you lemons, take them, free stuff is cool. h If life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic. h If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins h If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? h If money can fix it, it's not a problem. -- Tom Magliozzi h If more than one person is responsible for a problem, no one is at fault. h If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will. -- Silverman h If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. -- Carrie Fisher h If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. h If nothing ever sticks to teflon, how do they make it stick to the frying pan? h If one hundred people do a foolish thing, one will become injured. h If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too? h If only I could be respected without having to be respectable. h If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough. h If parents would only realize how they bore their children. -- George Shaw h If reproducibility might be a problem, conduct the test only once. h If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. h If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on vacation. h If sound can't travel in a vacuum, why are vacuum cleaners so noisy? h If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? h If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. h If the genie won't grant you more than three wishes, wish for more genies. h If the odds are a million to one against something, chances of it are 50-50. h If the plane you're on is late, the plane to which you're connecting is on time. h If the Pope wants to see me, he can come to my show. -- Madonna h If the probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero. -- Ellis h If the question of what it all means doesn't mean anything... -- xkcd h If the ship is not sinking, the rats must be the ones not leaving. h If the shoe fits, buy the other one too. h If the shoe fits, it's ugly. -- Gold h If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. h If there is light at the end of the tunnel... ORDER MORE TUNNEL. h If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe h If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? h If they lined up all the men in the world... That would be one funky line! h If they won't read my words, no one's going to stop them. -- John Taylor h If things get any worse, I will have to ask you to stop helping me. h If this aphorism did not exist, somebody would have invented it. h If this were subjunctive, I'm in the wrong mood. h If thou art in the bathtub, the telephone tolls for thee. h If time flies, does it mean you are having fun? h If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in? h If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday? h If tomatoes are technically a fruit, is ketchup a smoothie? h If triangles had a God, he'd have three sides. -- old Yiddish proverb h If we all work together we can totally disrupt the system. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? h If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quayle h If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research. -- J. C. Stamos h If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage. h If we're here to take care of other people, what are they here for? -- Wilson h If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? h If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it? -- Ann Edwards-Duff h If you are asked to join a parade, don't march behind the elephants. -- Zisla h If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? h If you are given a take-home test, you will forget where you live. h If you are given on open-book exam, you will forget your book. h If you are going to do something wrong, you should do it right. -- Garfield h If you are good you get all the work. If you're really good you get out of it. h If you are horny, it's lust, but if your partner's horny, it's affection. h If you are mad at your neighbor, buy his kid a drum. h If you are not very clever you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli h If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it. h If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry? h If you believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. h If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. -- J. Paul Getty h If you can get a new car for your spouse, it's a great trade. h If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse. h If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. h If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything. h If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a call. h If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. h If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit. h If you can't find your glasses, it's probably because you don't have them on. h If you can't get your work done in the first 24 hours, work nights. h If you can't make it good, make it big. h If you can't say anything nice, you probably don't have many friends. h If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious. h If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S Truman h If you cannot hope for order, withdraw with style from the chaos. -- Stoppard h If you do a job too well, you will get stuck with it. -- Slous h If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again. h If you do something right the first time, no one will know how hard it was. h If you don't believe me, stand in line. h If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost. h If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours. -- Clarence Day h If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly. h If you don't like my driving, don't call anyone. Just take another road. h If you don't like the news, go out and make some. h If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. -- Twain h If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. h If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. -- Coolidge h If you explain so clearly that no one can possibly misunderstand, someone will. h If you find a place to park, later you won't find your car. h If you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong. h If you get angry at a newspaper columnist, he will get rich or famous or both. h If you have half a mind to watch TV, that is enough. h If you have kleptomania, you can always take something for it. h If you have nothing to say, please say it only once. h If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it. h If you have to travel on the Titanic, why not go first class? -- Hempstone h If you have to vacuum the bed, it is time to change the sheets. h If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong? h If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it. h If you liked Earth, you will love Heaven. h If you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other people's mistakes. h If you live alone, deodorant is a waste of good money. h If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. -- Graham Summer h If you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home. -- Erma Bombeck h If you look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. -- Fuch h If you mess with a thing long enough, it will break. -- Schmidt h If You Pass This Point You Will Most Certainly Die. -- sign on birth canal h If you put it off long enough, it might go away. h If you start off dumb enough, you can learn something new each day. h If you stay up all night wondering where the sun is, it will dawn on you. h If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. h If you think before you speak, the other fellow gets in his joke first. -- Howe h If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try filing your income tax late. h If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. h If you think outside the box, the box will think outside you. -- Quarnstrom h If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. -- Kasspe h If you think there is good in everyone, you haven't met everyone. h If you thought yesterday was bad, wait till you see what happens today. h If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter? h If you took out all your blood vessels and laid them end-to-end, you'd die. h If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? h If you turn on the light quickly enough you can see what the dark looks like. h If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse. -- Naomi, age 15 h If you want to come back after death, be sure to get your hand stamped first. h If you want to know how old a man is, ask his brother-in-law. h If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map. h If you were to ask me this question, what would my answer be? h If you're born again, do you get two bellybuttons? h If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Wright h If you've got part of it, flaunt that part. h If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all. -- Ronald Reagan h If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. h If your feet smell and your nose runs, you were built upside down. h If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. h Ignorance: When you don't know anything, and someone else finds out. h Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. h Ignore previous fortune. h Ill-bred children always display their pest manners. h Illiterate? Write for free help. h Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. -- Jack Paar h Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar Shoaff h Imports are ports very far inland. h In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles. h In a gambit you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game. -- Boden h In a ham and egg breakfast, the chicken was involved, but the pig was committed. h In a modern household, the only things we have to wash by hand are children. h In America, anyone can be President. That's one of the risks you take. h In America, it is not how much an item costs, it is how much you save. h In an accident, it's not who's right, but who's left. -- Geoff Torres h In an orderly world, there is always a place for the disorderly. h In base infinity, all integers are just one digit. h In Boston, drivers don't even obey the laws of PHYSICS. -- Dave Barry h In case of emergency, contact: "A good doctor." h In case of fire... Yell "fire". h In cyberspace, everyone gets their 15 minutes of shame. -- Michael Fry h In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes. h In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. h In English, every word can be verbed. h In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. -- Edward Abbey h In government, where there is a vacancy, there is a relative. h In Lake Wobegon, all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keilor h In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. h In married life three is company and two is none. -- Oscar Wilde h In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Butler h In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. h In my case, saving the world was only a hobby. -- Edward Abbey h In New York City, it is easier to get a girlfriend than an apartment. h In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it. h In principle I am against principles. -- Tristan Tzara h In process: So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. h In some cultures what you do would be considered normal. h In spite of the high cost of living, it is still very popular. -- Laurence Peter h In Texas the men are men, but for some reason they have to keep proving it. h In the battle between airplanes and the ground, the ground has yet to lose. -- Darwin Awards h In the first half of our life we learn habits that shorten the second half. h In the future, your clothes will be smarter than you. -- Scott Adams h In the memo field of every check you issue, write, "for sexual favors." h In the morning, I do not want to eat gum drops and cheese doodles. -- Madonna h In the subway it is called congestion; in the disco it is called intimacy. h In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe. -- Edward Abbey h In the years ahead, when you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra h In this world, truth can wait; she is used to it. h Include me out. -- Samuel Goldwyn h Incoming fire has the right of way. h Incompetence is a double-edged banana. -- J. P. Barlow h Indecision is the key to flexibility. h Individualists unite! h Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. h Ingrate: Bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion. h Ingress is not a necessary precursor to egress. h Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. h Insanity is inherited; you get it from your kids! h Inside every old person is a young person... Wondering what the heck happened. h Insomnia: What you have when you lie awake all night for an hour. -- Gilbert h Insomniac agnostic dyslexic: Lays awake at night wondering if there is a dog. h Instant sex will never be better than the kind you have to peel and cook. h Institute: An archaic school where football is not taught. h Insufficient data for a meaningful answer at this time. -- Isaac Asimov h Intaxication: Misguided euphoria about a tax refund (of your own money). h Intellectuals going round in circles until they disappear up their own holes. h Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think. -- Scott Adams h Interchangeable parts won't. h Invest in physics; own a piece of Dirac. h Iowa State grads put their diploma on the dashboard to park in handicap zones. h Irrationality is the square root of all evil. -- Douglas Hofstadter h Irresistible force + immovable object = inconceivable disturbance. h Irritainment: Media spectacles that are annoying but spellbinding. h IRS: Income Reduction Service. h Is Interstate 35 the best thing to come out of Iowa? h Is is the verb for when you don't want a verb. h Is it possible to be totally partial? h Is it the God of the Catholics or of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? h Is it time for lunch yet? h Is knowledge knowable, and how do we know? h Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? -- Mae West h Is there life before coffee? h Is there life before death? -- Belfast graffiti h Is this really happening? h It ain't loafing unless they can prove it. -- Dick Brown h It behooves the writer to avoid archaic expressions. h It bothers people if you are lucid and ironic. -- Albert Camus h It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations. h It doesn't matter that everything has already been said -- no one was listening. h It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose. h It has been Monday all week today. h It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats. h It is a mistake to let any mechanical object know you are in a hurry. h It is a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot. h It is an inappropriate response to get a headache in the presence of a miracle. h It is bad luck to be superstitious. -- Andrew Mathis h It is better for civilization to go down the drain than to come up it. -- Allen h It is better to be an ancestor than a descendant. h It is better to be on penicillin than never to have loved at all. h It is better to be on the ground wishing you were flying, than vice versa. h It is better to burn out than to fade away. h It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. h It is better to have a positive Wasserman than never to have loved at all. h It is better to have loved and lost -- much better. h It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost. h It is better to light one candle than to torch a wax museum with a flamethrower. h It is better to remain childless than to father an orphan. -- Tom Weller h It is better to sit still than rise and fall. -- Scott h It is called cold cash because we don't keep it long enough to get it warm. h It is considered tacky to take a cooler to church. h It is dangerous to name your children before you know how many you will have. h It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators. h It is difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future. -- Confucius h It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser. h It is easier to take it apart than to put it back together. -- Washlesky h It is easy being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. h It is easy to love a sleeping baby. h It is great to live in the fast lane, if you can find the on-ramp. h It is hard to be humble when you are so perfect. h It is hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere. h It is hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning. h It is kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Walt Disney h It is later than you think. h It is lonely at the top of the food chain, but you eat better. h It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. h It is more than magnificent -- it is mediocre. -- Samuel Goldwyn h It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem. h It is not a good omen when goldfish commit suicide. h It is not a pre-existing condition unless you had it before you existed. h It is not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White h It is not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either. -- Boston mayor Kevin White h It is not my week to care. h It is not premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. h It is not procrastination if you decide to postpone it right now. h It is not speeding if there are still cars in front of you. h It is not that you and I are so clever, but that the others are such fools. h It is not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. h It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. h It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. -- epitaph h It is sweet to be remembered, but cheaper to be forgotten. h It is tough being you, but you are the one most qualified for the job. h It is trying not to appear poor that keeps a lot of folks broke. h It isn't what a teenager knows that bothers his parents; it is how he found out. h It might appear I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm quite busy. h It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. h It requires strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. h It seems to make an auto driver mad if she misses you. h It takes 45 muscles to frown, but only four to give the finger. -- Niki Roman h It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. h It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark Twain h It takes years to become an overnight success. h It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. h It was a brave man that ate the first oyster. h It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed. -- W. Somerset Maugham h It works better if you plug it in. h It would be best if you did not remind God of my existence. -- Doug Quarnstrom h It would be nice to be sure of anything the way some people are of everything. h It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca. -- Humphrey Bogart h It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- Jackson h It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. -- Dick Cavett h It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. -- Stephen Wright h It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of karma to burn off. h It's all funds and gains until someone loses ROI. -- The Covert Comic h It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. h It's been real and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun. h It's better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West h It's better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. -- Thurber h It's certainly strange how little I look like me. -- Bob Thaves h It's good to get a taste of someone else's moccasins. h It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. -- Mae West h It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. h It's hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys. h It's hell to work for a nervous boss, especially if you are why he's nervous! -- Alan Silverstein h It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. h It's just too easy to start a religion. -- Bill Maher h It's not easy being green. -- Kermit the frog h It's not hard to meet expenses; they are everywhere. h It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West h It's not the pace of life that concerns me; it's the sudden stop at the end. h It's not weird to piss in the river; it's only weird if you watch. -- OARS river guide h It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game. h It's often your clothing that gets promoted. -- Scott Adams h It's sick the way you people keep having sex without me. h It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matter. -- Marlene Dietrich h It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. -- Dan Quayle h Jealousy: All the fun you think they have. h Jehovah has a very limited repertoire of emotional responses, as gods go. -- Dass h Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for valuable cash prizes. h Jesus saves; Moses invests; but only Buddha pays dividends. h Jesus to headwaiter at Last Supper: "Separate checks, please." -- Edward Abbey h Job placement: Telling your boss what he can do with your job. h John Muir was the sum of his parks. -- Henry Gay h Journalism is literature in a hurry. -- Matthew Arnold h Journalism is the first draft of history. -- Philip Graham h Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you are at it. h Journalists print 10% of what you tell them, and they get that wrong. -- Richard Hill h Junk: Stuff we throw away. Stuff: Junk we keep. h Jury: Twelve men and women trying to decide which party has the best lawyer. h Just as nature abhors a vacuum, truth abhors a know-it-all. -- Michael Mode h Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. h Just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you. h Just give Alice some pencils and she will stay busy for hours. h Just when you get going, someone injects a dose of reality with a large needle. h Just when you learn to make the most of it, most of it is gone. h Justice: A decision in your favor. h Karmageddon: When the Earth explodes due to bad vibes. h Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time. h Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans. h Keep in mind that all I had to work with was chaos. -- God, per Bob Thaves h Keep stress out of your life. Give it to others instead. h Keep the pointy end forward and the dirty side down. h Keychain: A device that allows you to lose multiple keys at once. h Kilroy occupied these spatial coordinates. h Kiss me twice, I'm schizophrenic. h Klatu barada nikto. h Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. h Kleptomaniac: A rich thief. h Knocked; you weren't in. -- Opportunity h Know thyself -- but don't tell anyone. h Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. -- Henry Camp h Krogt: The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. h Lack of prior planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. h Lactomangulation: Abusing the "open here" spout on a milk carton. h Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet. h Late to bed, early to rise, makes a man tired. h Laugh alone, and the world thinks you're an idiot. h Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you. h Laugh at your problems; everybody else does. h Laugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either. h Lawyers: America's untapped export market. h Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself. h Leakproof seals... Do. h Learn from your parents' mistakes -- use birth control! h Learn the rules. Then break some. -- H. Jackson Brown h Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose. h Lecture: Makes you feel numb on one end and dumb on the other. -- C. N. Pearce h Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. h Leftover nuts never match leftover bolts. h Legalize freedom. h Let him who takes the Plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. h Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. h Let us share the deepest secrets of our souls! You first. h Let's get drunk and be somebody. h Let's hope God grades on a curve. h Liberal arts major... Will think for money. h Liberal: A Conservative who has just been arrested. h Liberal: Someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist. h Liberal: Too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. h Licorice is the liver of candy. -- Michael O'Donoghue h Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. h Life -- love it or leave it. h Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward. -- Miss November, 1966 h Life does not begin at 40 for those who went 60 at 20. h Life is a game of bridge -- and you have just been finessed. h Life is a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. h Life is a journey, but relax, you will find a parking place at the end. h Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. h Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control. h Life is antagonistic to the living. h Life is carcinogenic. -- Abdul Khaliq h Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts. h Life is difficult because it is non-linear. h Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. h Life is just a stage: We all go through it. -- John Taylor h Life is just sudden-death overtime. h Life is like a fountain... I will tell you how when I figure it out. h Life is like a maze in which we all go around trying not to find an exit. h Life is like a sewer... What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. h Life is like an analogy. h Life is nature's way of keeping meat fresh. -- Doug Quarnstrom h Life is not for everyone. h Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. h Life is the ultimate cause of death. -- Lyle McDonald h Life is too confusing for novices. We should let the experts take care of it. h Life is too important to be taken seriously. h Life is tough. If it wasn't, anybody could do it. h Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first. h Life is wasted on the living. h Life is what puts the "pee" in entropy. h Life might have no meaning, or worse, it might have a meaning you don't like. h Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show. h Life without caffeine is stimulating enough. -- Sanka ad h Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! -- Homer Simpson h Little things come in small packages. -- Tom Weller h Live each day as if it were your last, because someday you're going to be right. -- Muhammed Ali h Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. h Live within your income, even if you must borrow to do so. h Livestock usually is a poor choice for a wedding gift. h Living on Earth includes an annual free trip around the Sun. h Living your life is so difficult, it has never been attempted before. h Loafer: Someone trying to make two weekends meet. h Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree, that smells AWFUL. h Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. -- Charles Kettering h Loneliness is a good thing to share with someone. -- Ernie Pantusso, Cheers h Long-lived: You can't buy parts when it DOES get old and wears out. h Long-term planning is anticipatory expiation for short-term fiasco. -- Hirsch h Look out for number 1. Don't step in number 2 either. h Look under the sofa cushion; you will be surprised at what you find. h Looking for love, everyone runs away because you remind them of themselves. h Looking like a weed doesn't make you organic. -- Edward Abbey h Losing my virginity was a career move. -- Madonna h Losing your driver's license is just God's way of saying "BOOGA, BOOGA!" h Lots of money saved for a rainy day is blown on a wet night. h Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. h Love does much; money does everything. h Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit. h Love is a vacation from reality. h Love is being stupid together. h Love is blind, but marriage is definitely an eye-opener. h Love is Grand... Divorce is Twenty Grand. h Love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. -- John, age 9 h Love is sentimental measles. h Love is sex misspelled. -- Harlan Ellison h Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. h Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. h Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken h Love lasts as long as money endures. h Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes. h Love means nothing to a tennis player. h Love the sea? I dote upon it -- from the beach. h Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose thy neighborhood. -- Louise Beal h Love thy neighbor: Tune thy piano. h Love thyself, and others will hate thee. h Love your enemies. It will make them crazy. h Love your neighbor, but don't get caught. h Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. h Love: The warm feeling you get towards someone who meets your neurotic needs. h Love: Two vowels, two consonants, two fools. -- Rodney Dangerfield h LSD melts in your mind, not in your hand. h LSD soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess reality. h Lullabuoy: A nagging thought that prevents you from drifting off to sleep. h Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol h Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. h Magazine: Printed pages that tell you what's coming in the next issue. h Maggit: A subscription card that falls from a magazine. h Magnocartic: An automobile that when left unattended attracts shopping carts. h Maintain thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee. h Major steps to building a business plan: 1. Gather information. 2. Ignore it. h Majority: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law. h Make a firm decision now... You can always change it later. h Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. h Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. h Make yourself at home! Start by cleaning my kitchen. h Male zebras have white stripes, but female zebras have black stripes. h Man has made his bedlam; let him lie in it. -- Fred Allen h Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. -- Lily Tomlin h Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. -- Mark Twain h Man sometimes stumbles over the truth, but he picks himself up and keeps going. h Man was created to complete the horse. -- Edward Abbey h Man who arrives at party two hours late finds he has been beaten to the punch. h Man who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought. h Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self. h Man: A remarkable animal whose head swells when you pat his back. h Managers are like cats in a litter box. -- Scott Adams h Mankind has never reconciled itself to the ten commandments. h Mankind... infests the whole habitable Earth and Canada. -- Ambrose Bierce h Manners are the noises you don't make when eating soup. -- R.E. Atkinson h Many a family tree needs trimming. h Many a yo-yo thinks he has the world on a string. h Many are called, but few are at their desks. h Many are cold, but few are frozen. h Many can rise to the occasion, but few know when to sit down. h Many pages make a crowded castle. h Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles on very thin paper. h Many people have eaten in this kitchen and gone on to lead healthy, happy lives. h Many quite distinguished people have bodies similar to yours. h Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of the feet. h Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. -- John Keynes h Marriage causes dating problems. h Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses. h Marriage is a rest period between romances. h Marriage is a three ring circus: Engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. h Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. h Marriage is an institution -- but who wants to live in one? h Marriage is for those who don't like eating leftovers alone. h Marriage is like pi: Natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman h Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. h Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence. h Marriage is not for wimps. h Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire h Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. h Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly h Marry carefully, for spouses are temporary, but ex's are forever. -- Alan Silverstein h Martin Luther died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. h Masturbation is having sex with someone I love. -- Woody Allen h Math is like love; a simple idea, but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek h Math is our native language. English is our foreign language. -- George Lance h Mathematicians are willing to assume anything -- except responsibility. h Mathematicians take it to the limit. h Matrimony is the root of all evil. h Matter cannot be created or destroyed; nor can it be returned without a receipt. h Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value. h Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. h May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. -- Joey Adams h May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. -- George Carlin h May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse. h May you have many friends and very few living enemies. h Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it. h Me... A skeptic?? I trust you have proof? h Measure with a micrometer; mark with chalk; cut with an axe. -- Ray h Mechanical engineers build weapons, while civil engineers build targets. h Medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. h Meditation is not what you think. h Meeting: A gathering where the minutes are kept and the hours lost. -- Gourd h Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. -- Galbraith h Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. h Men control fashion. But that's the only thing men control. -- Scott Adams h Men learned to walk upright to free their hands for masturbation. -- Jane Wagner h Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. -- Dorothy Parker h Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples. h Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." -- Seinfeld h Meteorologists have warm fronts. h Michelangelo would have made better time with a roller. h Microwave fireplace: Spend an evening in front of the fire in about 8 minutes. h Microwaves frizz your heir. h Middle class: Too rich to qualify for charity, too poor to make any donations. h Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx h Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx h Military targets are targets that are hit and thus defined as military targets. h Millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. h Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable. h Misery no longer loves company; nowadays it insists on it. h Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde h Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. h Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. -- J. K. Galbraith h Modesty is being comfortable that others will discover your greatness. h Mold has spores. People have pores. It is one way to tell us apart. h Molybdenum... No joke here, I just like saying "molybdenum". -- David Letterman h Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away. h Monday is the root of all evil. h Money can't buy happiness, but it can certainly rent it for a couple of hours. h Money can't buy happiness, but it lets you be miserable in comfort. h Money costs too much. -- Lew Archer h Money DOES talk -- it says goodbye. h Money doesn't buy happiness, but a lack of it can certainly buy unhappiness. -- Allan Roth h Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen h Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots. h Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch. h Monotony: The practice of having only one spouse at a time. h More than enough is too much. h Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. h Most general statements are false, including this one. -- Alexander Dumas h Most lipstick contains fish scales. h Most people are too stupid to butter the pancake on the right side. h Most people get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory. -- Paul Fixx h Most people who want to live forever are pretty miserable to begin with. h Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. -- Bennett h Mother is the invention of necessity. h Mother told me to be good, but she has been wrong before. h Mountain climbers rope together to prevent the sensible ones from going home. h Mountain range: A cooking stove used at high altitudes. h Mouse potato: The computer equivalent of a TV addict. h Mowmuffins: Dried accumulation of grass on the underside of lawnmowers. h Mummy: An Egyptian who was pressed for time. h Murphy never met anyone he didn't meet. h Murphy was an optimist. h Music sung by two people at the same time is called a duel. h My body is rejecting me. -- Alan Silverstein h My commitment is to truth, not consistency. h My doctor gave me just 100 years to live, and I am making the most of it. h My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrates h My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln h My favorite book on tape is, "Where's Waldo?" h My God is alive and kicking. Sorry about yours. -- Edward Abbey h My inferiority complex isn't very good. h My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h My life is like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle. h My mother had morning sickness after I was born. -- Rodney Dangerfield h My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips. h My mother wants grandchildren, so I said, "Mom, go for it!" -- Sue Murphy h My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. -- Ashleigh Brilliant h My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Wilde h My peers are all smart enough to be excused from jury duty. h My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying. -- Peter h My reality check just bounced. h My reputation grows with every failure. -- G. B. Shaw h My rise to the top was through sheer ability and inheritance. -- Malcolm Forbes h My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Morley h My toughest fight was with my first wife. -- Mohammad Ali h My truck does not leak, it's marking its territory. h My whole life has been an out-of-body experience. h My wife is so immature. Every time I'm in the bath she sinks my little boats. h My wife keeps complaining I never listen to her... or something like that. h My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday. -- Dangerfield h My wife ran off with my best friend, and I miss him. h Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game. h Myth: A young female moth. h Napjerk: Sudden convulsion of the body just as one is about to doze off. h Narcolepulacy: The contagious action of yawning. h Nature abhors a hero. h Nature abhors a vacuous experimenter. h Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. h Nature is blind. We are merely shortsighted. That's an improvement. -- Spencer h Neanderthals delivered children without training manuals. -- Bill Cosby h Necessity has no law; I know some attorneys of the same. -- Franklin h Necessity is a mother. h Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang h Negative expectations yield negative results. So do positive expectations. h Neutrinos have bad breadth. h Neutrinos have mass? I didn't know they were Catholic! h Never be photographed with a cocktail glass in your hand. -- H. Jackson Brown h Never be worth more to anyone dead than alive. -- Alan Silverstein h Never believe a rumor until it is officially denied. h Never buy anything electrical at a flea market. -- H. Jackson Brown h Never do card tricks for the group with which you play poker. h Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. h Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you. h Never eat anything bigger than your head. -- Kliban h Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy h Never give an inch! h Never go to bed mad; stay up and fight. h Never have any children, only grandchildren. -- Gore Vidal h Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat. h Never hold a Dustbuster and a cat at the same time. -- Kyoyo, age 9 h Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting. -- Billy Rose h Never laugh at live dragons. -- Bilbo Baggins h Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck h Never let the facts stand in the way of a good answer. -- Tom Magliozzi h Never look back, someone might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige h Never make forecasts, especially about the future. -- Samuel Goldwyn h Never miss a good chance to shut up. h Never offend with style when you can offend with substance. -- Sam Brown h Never pass a snowplow on the right. h Never put off till tomorrow that which can be done the day after tomorrow. h Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. h Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today -- while it's still legal. h Never raise your hands to your kids; it leaves your groin unprotected. h Never relieve yourself from a moving vehicle, especially when driving. h Never replace a successful experiment. h Never say anything more predictive than, "Watch this!" h Never send a monster to do the work of an evil genius. h Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. h Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself. -- Hartley h Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own. h Never stand between a fire hydrant and a dog. h Never take a beer to a job interview, nor ask if they press charges. h Never tell your mom her diet's not working. -- Michael, age 14 h Never throw a bird at a dragon. h Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape. h Never trust a dog to watch your food. -- Patrick, age 10 h Never try to baptize a cat. -- Eileen, age 8 h Never try to outstubborn a cat. h Never use an outhouse while holding your car keys in your mouth. -- David Boll h Never verb your nouns. h Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. h New: Different color from previous model. h Niagara Falls is beautiful for thirty seconds. -- Gertrude Stein h Nice guys don't finish nice. h Nice guys don't get laid. h Nice perfume... Must you marinate in it? h Nice tie -- does it run on batteries? h Nihilism should commence with oneself. h Nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot. h Nine out of ten people think they are above average. The rest are in therapy. h Ninety eight percent of Americans support the use of mass transit by others. h Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. h No brains, no headache. h No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. -- Oliver Holmes h No good deed goes unpunished. -- Andrew Mellon h No guts, no glory. h No job is so simple that it cannot be done wrong. h No maintenance: Impossible to fix. h No major religion specifically bans the pilfering of office supplies. -- Adams h No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. h No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. -- Howe h No matter how much you care, some people are just assholes. h No matter how much you do, you never do enough. h No matter how rich or famous you are, the laws of physics are still very strict. h No matter what goes wrong, there's always someone who knew it would. h No matter what happens, someone will take it too seriously. -- Dave Barry h No matter what occurs, someone believes it happened according to his pet theory. h No matter what results are expected, someone is always willing to fake it. h No matter what you do, someone always knew you would. h No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone. h No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. h No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid. h No one is listening until you make a mistake. h No one within an organization really knows what is going on. h No prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only awarded for building arks. h No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere. h No project is so risk-free that your company lawyer can't kill it. -- Scott Adams h No sentence fragments. h No trespassing without permission. -- sign on public school grounds h No verb is not a crime. No crime, no sentence. h Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. h Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. h Nobody ever has a reservation on a plane that leaves from Gate 1. h Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! h Nobody goes there anymore 'cause it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra h Nobody knows the trouble I have been. h Nobody remembers the second person to say E = mc2. -- N. Samios h Nobody wants constructive criticism. We can barely handle constructive praise. h Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong. h Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg h Norwegians have deep pockets, but very short arms. h Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. h Not all men are annoying. Some are dead. h Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we are not poets. h Not so random and clumsy as a blaster. -- Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars h Not writing a book cause I don't want to tell the truth and I don't want to lie. -- Harrison Ford h Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free. h Nothing can be done in one trip. -- Snider h Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it is time to get up. h Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. h Nothing exceeds like excess. h Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. -- Winston Churchill h Nothing increases your golf score like witnesses. h Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- Tussman h Nothing is certain but the unforeseen. h Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. h Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done. h Nothing is impossible or impassable if you have enough nails. h Nothing is so impudent as success. h Nothing is so smiple that it cannot be screwed up. h Nothing recedes like success. -- Walter Winchell h Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it. h Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain h Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kim Hubbard h Now and then an innocent person is sent to the Legislature. h Now it's time to say goodbye, to all our company... M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E. h Now that I have it all, can I give some of it away? -- Marianne Neifert h Now, 1 + 1 is 2; 2 + 2 is 4; but 4 + 4 is the reason they make calculators! h Nuclear war would really set back cable. -- Ted Turner h Nudists are people who wear one-button suits. h Nudists are the last people you want to see naked. -- David Sedaris h Nugloo: Single continuous eyebrow that covers the entire forehead. h Occupation: The principal thing one engages in to avoid thinking. h Of all our privileges, the license to breed is most grossly abused. -- Edward Abbey h Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. -- Plato h Of course God loves you; He's just not ready to make a commitment. -- Bhaerman h Of course I am happily married -- she's happy, and I'm married. h Of course I'm vain. Every time I pass by a mirror I look. -- Madonna h Of course the game is rigged, but if you don't play, you can't win! -- Robert Heinlein h Often it is fatal to live too long. -- Racine h Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to conceive. -- Herold h Oh, Aunty Em, it's so good to be home! h Oh, if faces could only talk! -- John Madden h Ohnosecond: Instant in which you realize you have just made a big mistake. h Old accountants never die; they just lose their balance. h Old actors never die; they just drop apart. h Old age comes at a bad time. h Old age: You + 20 years. h Old bankers never die; they just lose interest. h Old beekeepers never die; they just buzz off. h Old cashiers never die; they just check out. h Old chauffeurs never die; they just lose their drive. h Old cooks never die; they just get deranged. h Old daredevils never die; they just get discouraged. h Old deans never die; they just lose their faculties. h Old doctors never die; they just lose their patience. h Old electricians never die; they just lose contact. h Old farmers never die; they just go to seed. h Old frogs never die; they just croak. h Old hippies never die; they just smell that way. h Old investors never die; they just roll over. h Old is needing a fire permit for your birthday cake. h Old laser physicists never die; they just become incoherent. h Old lawyers never die; they just lose their appeal. h Old limbo dancers never die; they just go under. h Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement. h Old mathematicians never die; they just disintegrate. h Old milkmaids never die; they just lose their whey. h Old musicians never die; they just get played out. h Old numerical analysts never die; they just get disarrayed. h Old owls never die; they just don't give a hoot. h Old pacifists never die; they just go to peaces. h Old photographers never die; they just stop developing. h Old pilots never die; they just go to a higher plane. h Old policemen never die; they just cop out. h Old postmen never die; they just lose their zip. h Old schools never die; they just lose their principals. h Old sculptors never die; they just lose their marbles. h Old seers never die; they just lose their vision. h Old sewage workers never die; they just waste away. h Old skiers never die; they just go downhill. h Old steelmakers never die; they just lose their temper. h Old students never die; they just get degraded. h Old tanners never die; they just go into hiding. h Old teachers never die; they just lose their class. h Old wrestlers never die; they just lose their grip. h Old: A cute gal catches your fancy and your pacemaker opens your garage door. h Omit needless words! Omit needless words! Omit needless words! -- EB White h Omniscience: Talking only about things you know about. h On the other hand, you have different fingers. h On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. -- W. C. Fields's epitaph h On time. No defects. Pick one. -- Scott Adams h Once a fool and his money were soon parted. Now it happens to everyone. h Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. h Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action. h Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's no fun lying to them anymore. h Once there was a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her. h Once upon a time, charity was a virtue and not an organization. h Once upon a time: Back when snakes used to walk. h Once you give up your integrity, the rest is a piece of cake. -- J. R. Ewing h Once you miss the first buttonhole you never manage to button up. h Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall. h One Bell System -- it sometimes works. h One bit of advice: Don't give it. h One child is not enough, but two children are far too many. h One day you will find yourself and be quite disappointed. h One figure can sometimes add up to a lot. -- Mae West h One good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe. h One good turn usually gets most of the blanket. h One horsepower: Energy required to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. h One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. -- Skinner h One millionth of a mouthwash = one microscope. h One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people. h One of us is thinking about sex... OK, it's me. h One picture is worth a few thousand bucks -- in the New York Times. -- Sundqvist h One picture is worth a thousand words. See diagram below. h One reason you can't take it with you is that it goes before you do. h One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. h One should always be a little improbable. -- Oscar Wilde h One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. h One size fits all: Doesn't fit anyone. h One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. h One thing leads to another, and usually does. h One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model. h One will not have needed the future perfect in one's entire life. h Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star. h Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps. h Only fools are quoted. -- Anonymous h Only God could mess up your life that much. -- Carolyn Myss h Only those with nothing to be sorry for smile back at the rear of an elephant. h Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer. h Only two groups of people fall for flattery: Men and women. h Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he sings. h Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. -- Ducharme h Opportunity knocks only once, but temptation bangs on your door for years. h Optimist: Always sees the bright side of other people's problems. h Optimist: Thinks he can break up a traffic jam by blowing his horn. h Optimist: Woman who regards a bulge as a curve. h Oratory: The power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. h Oregonians don't tan, they rust. h Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. h Our parents were never our age. h Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing. -- Roy Ash h Our problems are mostly behind us. Now we have to fight the solutions. h Our sequiturs tend to be non. h Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it. -- Alex Schure h Out of the mouths of babes does often come cereal. h Outpatient: A person who has fainted. h Oversteer is when the passenger is scared; understeer when the driver is scared. h Ow: The first word spoken by children with older siblings. h Packrat's credo: "I have no use for it, but I hate to see it go to waste." h Page yourself over the intercom, and don't disguise your voice. h Pain is just a sensory input. -- Aussie rugby player skiing with broken thumb h Pain is relative. Unfortunately it's a close relative and it visits often. h Pain is temporary. Either it goes away, or you do. -- York h Pampered cows give spoiled milk. h Panic is the second time you can't do it the first time. -- Isaac Asimov h Paper is always strongest at the perforations. -- Corry h Paradise is exactly like where you are, only MUCH, MUCH better. -- Anderson h Paradox of travel planning: By the time you leave, you really need a vacation. -- Alan Silverstein h Paradox: An assistant to PhDs. h Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them. h Paranoia: A healthy understanding of the nature of the universe. h Paranoid schizophrenics outnumber their enemies at least two to one. h Pardon me, you have apparently mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. h Part of the art of being a woman is knowing when not to be too much of a lady. h Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer h Patience is counting down without blasting off. h Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. -- Groucho Marx h Pediatricians eat, because children don't. -- Carleton Fredericks h Pedlock: When a bicycle pedal wedges itself against the kickstand. h People accept an idea more readily if you say Benjamin Franklin said it first. h People are idiots. -- Scott Adams h People compelled to tell you they have a great sense of humor, have none. h People have one thing in common: They are all different. -- Robert Zend h People rarely think alike until it comes to buying wedding presents. h People should be aware of the dangers of killing themselves. h People usually get what's coming to them... Unless it was mailed. h People who concern themselves with what's cool and what's not cool are not cool. h People who go to conferences are the ones who should not. h People who live in glass houses should undress in the dark. h People who live in glass houses shouldn't invite in people without sin. h People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw parties. h People who live in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses. h People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. -- Leo Burke h People who study the Bible in their old age must be cramming for their finals. h People who take cat naps usually don't sleep in a cat's cradle. h People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do. h People who verb nouns really weird language. h People will buy anything that is one to a customer. -- Lewis h People with dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. h People with no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. h Perfect guest: One who makes his host feel at home. h Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. h Performance review: Signed confession of your crimes against productivity. h Perhaps men and women should live next door and just visit now and then. h Perhaps your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. h Pessimist: Complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. h Petrophobic: Embarrassed to undress in front of a household pet. h Phasers locked on target, Captain. h Philadelphia just seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. h Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. h Phoenix is an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland. -- Edward Abbey h Phonesia: Dialing and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer. h Physicist: Someone who averages the first three terms of a divergent series. h Pioneer: Early American lucky enough to find his way out of the woods. h Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. -- Don Marquis h Pity the poor egg; it only gets laid once. h Pizza shop slogan: Seven days without pizza makes one weak. h Plagiarism: Losers must be choosers. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck h Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. h Planet three is the place to be! -- Rich Testardi h Plastic explosives will be appropriate later in the week. h Please continue dancing until the floor comes to a complete stop. -- radio DJ h Plumber: A man who gets paid for sleeping under other people's sinks. h Plunder first, THEN pillage. h PMS: Something that makes a woman act once a month like a man acts every day. h Polar bear: A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. h Politician: "My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin." h Politicians aren't born, they're excreted. -- Mark Twain h Politics consists of deals and ideals. h Politics: The art of turning influence into affluence. h Positive: Being mistaken at the top of your voice. h Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage. -- Ryan h Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on Earth. h Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. -- Smith h Power corrupts. Absolute power is great! h Power means not having to respond. h Practice makes perfect, but no one's perfect, so why practice? h Predestination was doomed from the start. h Prejudice doesn't have a Chinaman's chance in Chicago. -- Richard Daley h Pressure: The normal force acting upon an engineer. h Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side. h Pride is what we have... Vanity is what others have. h Princess, having sufficient experience with princes, seeks frog... h Princesses don't do dishes or take out garbage. h Prisoners talk to each other on cell phones. h Pro is to con as progress is to Congress. h Procrastinate now. h Procrastination means never having to say you're sorry. -- Toni Epstein h Procrastination: The art of keeping up with yesterday. h Proctologist: A doctor who puts in a hard day at the orifice. h Producing a system from a spec is like walking on water: Easier if it's frozen. h Professionals built the Titanic, but amateurs built the Ark. h Professor: One who talks in someone else's sleep. -- W.H. Auden h Progress is made on alternate Fridays. h Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. h Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long. -- Ogden Nash h Proof that we don't understand death is that we give dead people a pillow. -- Jerry Seinfeld h Proofread carefully to see if you words out. -- William Safire h Proofreading is more effective after publication. -- Barker h Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend. -- Nora Roberts h Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. -- Graves h Proximity isn't everything, but it comes close. h Prunes give you a run for your money. h Psychiatrist: A doctor who doesn't have to worry so long as other people do. h Psychiatry: Figuring out the program from the printout. -- Chris Gates h Psychosclerosis: Hardening of the attitude. h Psychotheology: A religious fervor about psychological beliefs. h Public speaking is very easy. -- Dan Quayle h Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic-tac. -- Andrew, age 9 h Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- Mencken h Push something hard enough and it will fall over. h Pushing 40 is exercise enough. h Put your nose to the grindstone and you are a bloody fool. h Quack! h Quality assurance doesn't. h Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it is the only one we have. h Quantum mechanics is incredibly easy once you take the physics out. -- Scott Aaronson h Quantum mechanics is nice because you can both have your cat and eat it too. h Quark! Quark! Beware the quantum duck! h Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. h Question Authority... And the Authorities will question you! h Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Anything in Latin sounds profound.) h Quinine is the bark of a tree; canine is the bark of a dog. h Quip pro quo: A fast retort. h Quit working and play for once! h Quo signo nata es? (What's your sign?) h Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research. h Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives. h Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail. h Rain is saved up in cloud banks. h Rainy days and automatic weapons always get me down. h Raising a teenager is like trying to nail jello to a tree. -- Steve Feidler h Rap music is nature's way of punishing those who have lived too long. -- Gay h Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi. h Read my lips: No new taxes. -- George Bush h Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. -- Mary Schmich h Reading the small print is education; not reading it is experience. h Real life is not like this. h Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges. h Real Work + Appearance of Work = Total Work. -- Scott Adams h Reality -- what a concept! -- Robin Williams h Reality has a well-known liberal bias. -- Stephen Colbert h Reality is an illusion brought on by lack of alcohol. h Reality is an illusion created by an intelligence deficiency. h Reality is an obstacle to hallucination. h Reality is for people who can't deal with drugs. -- Lily Tomlin h Reality is for people who can't face science fiction. h Reality is for people who lack imagination. h Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Smith h Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein h Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Dick h Really slow vacations involve chartering continental drift. -- Andrew Plotkin h Recent studies prove I don't have to be reasonable. h Recycle old photons -- for a brighter future! h Recycle your mother-in-law. -- John Taylor h Red lights always last longer than green lights. h Red, white, and blue stand for freedom, until they're flashing behind you. h Refrain means don't do it. A refrain in music is the part you better not sing. h Refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. h Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. h Rehab is for quitters. h Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. h Religions are maintained by people who can't get laid. -- Bill Maher h Remember that the rabbit's foot didn't work for the rabbit. -- Shay h Remember to breathe when your head is above water. h Remember to finish what h Remember, life is not a test, it is an actual emergency. h Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. -- Mark Twain h Reputation: What others are not thinking about you. h Research is something that tells you that a jackass has two ears. -- Lasker h Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- von Braun h Researchers often become quite attached to leeches they study, and vice versa. h Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed. h Respondez s'il vous plaid. (Honk if you're Scottish.) h Responsibility always exceeds authority. h Rest assured that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. -- Deteriorata h Retired: Under new management. See spouse for details. h Reunite Pangea! h Revenge travel: After a year at home, people getting back at the pandemic. -- Heather Davis h Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. -- Wright h Rignition: Trying to start the car when the engine is already running. h Roll up your sleeves... And you won't lose your shirt. h Rome was not built in a day. (They worked well into the night.) -- John Taylor h Rome was not built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their engineer. h Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. h Rubber bands have snappy endings. h Rugged: Too heavy to lift. h Rumper sticker on a horse: "Get off my tail, because shit happens." h Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been more tolerant. -- Swayze h Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain h Saddam Hussein is the father of the mother of all cliches. h Safest way to double your money: Fold it over once and put it in your pocket. h Sagan: The international unit of humility. h Sailing is a form of mast transit. h Sailing: Getting wet and ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense. h Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. h Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. h Sarcasm is just one more service we offer. h Sarchasm: Gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the clueless recipient. h Satisfaction guaranteed, or twice your load back. -- sign on septic tank truck h Save energy: Be apathetic. h Save the whales. Collect the whole set. h Schedule chicken: When no team wants to admit THEIR part will be late. h Schroedinger's cat might have died for your sins. h Science is a game for the fame of the name. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck h Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. h Science is gradually filling our homes with appliances smarter than we are. h Science is material. Religion is immaterial. h Scientists are explorers; philosophers are just tourists. -- Richard Feynman h Scientists prolong life so we have time to pay for the gadgets they invent. h Scotty, beam me up a double! h Sculpture: Mud pies that endure. h Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. h See no evil, hear no evil, date no evil. h Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. -- James Thurber h Seek and ye shall have sought. -- John Taylor h Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. -- Alfred Whitehead h Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it. h Self-control: The ability to eat only one peanut. h Self-delusion: Pulling in your stomach when you step on the scale. -- Sweeney h Serendipity: The process by which human knowledge is advanced. h Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence. h Sex for money usually costs a lot less than sex for free. -- Brendan Francis h Sex has no calories. h Sex is dirty only when it's done right. -- Woody Allen h Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either. h Sex is like air: It's not important unless you aren't getting any. h Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. -- Swami X h Sex is so popular because it's centrally located. h Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing. h Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. h Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. h Shakespeare never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. h Shakespeare thought more of the lady than of the poem. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald h Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. h She got her good looks from her father: He's a plastic surgeon. h She is always late. Her ancestors arrived on the June Flower. h She loves you as much as she can, which is not very much. h She walks as if balancing the family tree on her nose. h She was a sigh to behold. -- John Taylor h She was all signs and no scenery. -- John Taylor h She was suffering from fallen archness. -- Franklin Adams h She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- West h Should vegetarians eat animal crackers? h Show off: A child who is more talented than yours. h Shower the people you love with love. Shower with the people you love. h Shut her down Scotty, she's sucking mud again! h Sign at a bar: We install and service hangovers. h Sign at towing company: We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows. h Sign in counselor's office: Growing old is mandatory; growing wise is optional. h Sign in electrician's office: Let us remove your shorts. h Sign in plumber's shop: We repair what your husband fixed. h Sign in tire shop: Invite us to your next blowout. h Sign in vet's office: All unattended children will be given a free kitten. h Sign in veterinarian's office: Be back in five minutes. Sit! Stay! h Sign on a fence: Salesmen welcome... Dog food is expensive. h Sign on bank: "FREE BOTTLE OF CHIVAS WITH EVERY MILLION-DOLLAR DEPOSIT." h Silly is a state of mind. Stupid is a way of life. h Since I'm not handicapped by facts, I'm free to speculate. -- Jim Randle h Smile! It is the second best thing you can do with your lips. h Smile! You're on Candid Camera. h Smile, tomorrow will be worse. h Smile... People will wonder what you have been up to. h Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. -- Fletcher Knebel h Snackmosphere: The 95% air inside bags of potato chips. h Snow and adolescence are problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. h So long, and thanks for all the fish. -- Douglas Adams h So many men, so little time. -- Mae West h So what if we get half what we want; we asked for twice what we needed. -- Taylor h So, what's the speed of dark? h Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even. h Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. h Solipsism: I think, therefore you are. -- Larry Byler h Solipsists of the world, unite! -- Freya Harris h Soloist: One man falling alone. Roped party: Several men falling together. h Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. h Some are wise, and some are otherwise. h Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as finding a trout in the milk. h Some days are more expensive than others. h Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. h Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue. h Some is good, more is better, too much is just right. h Some make things happen; some watch what happens; some wonder what happened. h Some men are discovered; others are found out. h Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. -- Phillips h Some of us quit looking for work when we find a job. h Some of what we know is false. The problem is figuring out what. h Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. h Some people must get a whole lot older to become a little bit wiser. h Some people who can, should not. h Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head. h Some people wouldn't recognize diplomacy even if you rubbed their faces in it. h Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. -- Francis h Some prefer the happiness of pursuit to the pursuit of happiness. h Some trails are uphill in both directions. h Someday they'll collect our skulls and refer to us as "early man". h Someday you will get your big chance -- or have you already had it? h Someday you will look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. h Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject. h Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual! h Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud h Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done. h Sometimes people don't recognize how wise you are. -- Paul Holdeman h Sorry about the dinosaurs... Can I have all my iridium back? -- David Mitchell h Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma. h Sounds like a head thing. I don't much believe in head things. -- Jenny Pruett h Sounds like a personal problem to me. h Souport publik edekasion. h South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage. h Spare no expense to save money on this one. -- Samuel Goldwyn h Speak softly and carry a cellular phone. h Speaking of trade relations, almost everyone would like to. h Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. -- Walter Gropius h Speed is n subsittute fo accurancy. h Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle. h Spelling is a lossed art. h Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit. -- Ronald Reagan h Spinster: A bachelor's wife. h Spirobits: The frayed bits of left-behind paper in a spiral notebook. h Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. h SPQR: What every Roman always knew: Small Profit Quick Return! h Stalin's grave is a communist plot. h Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down. h Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W.C. Fields h Statisticians do it with 95 percent confidence. h Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts: For support, not illumination. h Stay away from flying saucers today. h Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. h Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language. h Stock item: We shipped it once before and we can do it again. h Stop committing useless mistakes. Make your next mistake count! h Strangers are friends you haven't bled for twenty bucks yet. h Strategy is when you keep firing so the enemy doesn't know you're out of ammo. h Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. -- Jim Samuels h Stress: When you wake up screaming and you realize you didn't fall asleep yet. h Stupid: Losing $25 on the game, and $25 more on the instant replay. h Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out? h Stupidity is a renewable resource. h Stupidity is not a survival trait. h Subject and verb always has to agree. h Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them. h Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. h Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts. h Success is relative. The more success the more relatives. h Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not until. h Success: The ability to go from failure to failure without being discouraged. h Successful man: One who makes more money than his son at college can spend. h Successful people: Those who think up things to keep everyone else busy. h Suffering is not the object of adventure; it's just a byproduct. -- Alan Silverstein h Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me. I quit." -- Bill Maher h Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism. -- Donald Kaul h Superiority is a recessive trait. h Support Search & Rescue: GET LOST! h Supposed to respect my elders, but getting harder and harder for me to find one. h Sure fire diet: Swallowing pride. h Sure it will sell product, but will it win awards? -- advertising agency h Sure we can laugh at ourselves, but laughing at other people is more fun. h Surly grammarians insist that all words ending in "ly" are adverbs. h Survivors eat anything. Non-survivors taste a lot like chicken. -- Papa Bear Whitmore h Sweater: A garment worn by a child when his parent feels chilly. h Swimming pool: A mob of people with water in it. h Swiped out: ATM or credit card rendered useless by wearing away the magstripe. h System-independent: Works equally poorly on all systems. h T shirt: I have a degree in liberal arts... Do you want fries with that? h Tact is the unsaid part of what you are thinking. h Tact: Changing the subject without changing the mind. h Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way. h Take it easy, we're in a hurry. h Take me drunk, I'm home. -- John Taylor h Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. -- William Safire h Take time to stop and smell the roses, and sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee. h Take what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. -- Deteriorata h Take your low opinion of yourself somewhere else, will you? h Talent does what it can; genius does what it must; I do what I am paid to do. h Talk is cheap because the supply exceeds the demand. h Talk is cheap, unless you hire a lawyer. h Taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either! h Taxes are going up so fast, the government might price itself out of the market. h Taxes: The one of life's two certainties for which you can get an extension. h Taxpayers don't have to take a civil service exam to work for the government. h Teach your kids the value of money -- borrow from them. h Teachers are the only profession that teach our children. -- Dan Quayle h Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else. h Technique: A trick that works. h Technological progress provides us with more efficient means of going backwards. h Technology can be used for good or evil. Please use only for good. h Technology simply means finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. h Teenagers are two year olds with hormones and wheels. -- Will Limon h Teenagers never consider that someday they'll know as little as their parents. h Telepathy: Knowing what people think when really they don't think at all. h Tell a man a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. h Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. h Terrorists blow up celluloid factory... No film at 11. h Texans are southerners with an attitude. h Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. -- Edward Abbey h Thank God we can't prove he exists. -- John Taylor h Thank you for observing all safety precautions. h Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it. h Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. h That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. -- Thomas Hardy h That must be wonderful; I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere h That that is is that that is not is not. h That which does kill us makes us smell stronger, after a few days anyway. h That's the way I got married. My wife lowered her expectations. -- Charlie Munger h The 51st state of the USA is paranoia. h The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman h The adverb always follows the verb. -- William Safire h The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more. -- Wilson Mizener h The amount of work done varies inversely with the time spent in the office. h The arrival of a baby coincides with the departure of our minds. -- Bill Cosby h The beatings will continue until morale improves. h The beginning of family values is not eating dead relatives. -- Robert Bakker h The best car safety device is a rearview mirror with a cop in it. -- Dudley Moore h The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning. -- Sandy Cooley h The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -- W. C. Fields h The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal. -- Blair h The best parachute folders are those who jump themselves. h The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. h The best time to buy anything is last year. h The best vacations are spent near the budget. h The best way out of yourself is through someone else. -- Norris Burkes h The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else. h The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the envelope. h The bigger they are, the harder they hit. h The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. -- Eugene Field h The blunders are all there on the chessboard waiting to be made. -- Tartakower h The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. h The careful application of terror is also a form of communication. h The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used. h The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. -- Boorstin h The chances of being eaten by a tiger are one in a million, but once is enough. h The chicken was the egg's idea of getting more eggs. -- Samuel Butler h The chief cause of problems is solutions. h The Christmas presents of today are the garage sales of tomorrow. h The clairvoyants meeting was canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. h The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere. h The clothes that make a woman are the clothes that break a man. h The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. -- Mark Twain h The cost of feathers is higher. Down is up. h The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down. h The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce h The cow is a machine that makes grass fit for us people to eat. -- John McNulty h The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash h The crucial thing for a writer is the ability to make up coherent words. h The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. h The dandelion song: I fought the lawn, and the lawn won. h The day is the same length as anything that is the same length as it. -- Carroll h The day will happen whether or not you get up. -- John Ciardi h The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. h The death rate on Earth is: One per person. h The decision does not have to be logical; it was unanimous. h The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days. h The difference between a lady and a tramp is about three drinks. h The difference between a wife and a mistress is night and day. -- Dear Abby h The difference between genius and idiocy: Genius has its limits. -- Darwin Awards h The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. -- USACE h The doctor felt the patient's purse and said there was no hope. h The dog's life is a good life, for a dog. -- Edward Abbey h The eager beaver works twice as hard but does not know why. h The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. h The early worm gets eaten first. h The early worm gets the late bird. h The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier. h The Earth makes one resolution every 24 hours. h The eastern part of Asia is called Euthanasia. h The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. h The English spell much better than they pronounce. -- Mark Twain h The essence of being human is not understanding the opposite sex. h The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. h The fact that it works is immaterial. -- Ogborn h The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant. h The famous politician was trying to save both his faces. h The fastest way to discover all your bad habits is to move in with your lover. h The fewer the data points, the smoother the curve. -- May h The first liar has a significant advantage. -- Lawrence Hirsch h The first myth about management is that it exists. -- Robert Heller h The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer". h The first piece of luggage out of the chute does not belong to anyone, ever. h The first rule of gun fighting is -- bring a gun. h The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Ehrlich h The first step in learning from your mistakes is admitting you took the course. h The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. h The first thing that strikes a stranger in New York is a big car. -- Evan Esar h The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- William Shakespeare h The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. -- Alan Coult h The following statement is not true... h The Forecaster Hall of Fame is an empty room. -- Jane Quinn h The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar. h The French for London is Paris. -- Ionesco h The future is a myth created by insurance salesmen and high school counselors. h The future will be better tomorrow. -- Dan Quayle h The general direction of the Alps is straight up. h The golfer wore two pairs of pants in case he got a hole in one. h The grass is always greener on the other side of your sunglasses. h The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein h The hardest thing to stop is a temporary chairman. -- Kin Hubbard h The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -- Helen Hayes h The heart has its reasons, and the endocrines have theirs. -- Aldous Huxley h The highway of life is always under construction. h The holodeck will be society's last invention. -- Scott Adams h The House of Representatives is really a substitute for violence. -- Gephardt h The human mind is a big place and it is very easy to get lost in it. h The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague h The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. h The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. h The IRS has what it takes to take what you've got. h The key to longevity is to keep breathing. -- Sophie Tucker h The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. h The last person who said that, God rest his soul, lived to regret it. h The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list. h The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down. h The law of gravity was enacted by the British Parliament. h The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish. h The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. h The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. h The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. h The locals treat the speed limits as short works of numeric fiction. -- Robert Niland h The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched". h The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. h The march of his intellect is like that of a crab, backward. -- Peacock h The meek shall inherit the Earth -- they are too weak to refuse. h The meek shall inherit the Earth after we are done with it. h The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. -- J. Paul Getty h The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only it is even deader. h The more keys you have, the more likely to be you are locked out. h The more people I meet, the more I like my dog. h The more things change, the more they stay insane. -- Tom Weller h The more things change, the more they will never be the same again. h The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. -- Andy Warhol h The most common name in the world is Mohammed. h The most dangerous part about playing cymbals is near the nose. h The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. h The most enjoyable form of sex education is the Braille method. h The most popular after-dinner speech is, "Waiter, bring me the check". h The most popular labor saving device is still a husband with money. -- Joey Adams h The moving finger having writ... Gestures. h The Navy, it's not just a job, it's an extended middle-east vacation cruise. h The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours. h The next thing I say will be true. The last thing I said was false. h The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. h The night is not young; it's just wearing a good concealer. -- The Covert Comic h The number one thing only women understand: Other women. h The number watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. h The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please multiply by i and dial again. h The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. h The older I get, the better I used to be. -- William Keogh h The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred. h The one day you would sell your soul for something, souls are a glut. h The one thing I can do better than anyone else is talk about myself. -- Cook h The one who says it can't be done should never interrupt the one doing it. h The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. -- Dorothy Parker h The only bad publicity is your obituary. -- Cynthia Typaldos h The only easy day was yesterday. h The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith h The only objective proof of aging is when you start to talk about aging. -- Nassim Taleb h The only problem with poetic justice is that it doesn't know when to quit. h The only reason I feel guilty about masturbation is because I do it so badly. -- David Steinberg h The only short meetings are when no one shows up. h The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. -- Oscar Wilde h The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. h The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're done. h The only time people work like a horse is when the boss rides them. h The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom. h The only tools some people are competent to use are a pen and a checkbook. h The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde h The opera isn't over until the fat lady sings. h The optimist invents the airplane. The pessimist invents the parachute. -- Gladys Stern h The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine h The other line always moves faster. h The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average number of legs. h The past is another country; they do things differently there. h The patient, be he dead or alive, needs a doctor's order to be released. h The pen is mightier than the pencil. h The perfect lover would turn into a pizza at 4 am. h The person who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI. -- Wright Morris h The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. -- Finagle h The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -- Jane Sellman h The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. h The player who wins a game is the one who has made the second-to-last mistake. h The plural of "musical instrument" is "orchestra". h The poor are rightfully the property of the rich, because the rich made them. h The poor ye have with ye always -- but they are not invited. -- Addison Mizner h The prairies are vast plains covered by treeless forests. h The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. -- Hobbes h The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. h The process of turning steam back into water again is called conversation. h The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. -- Oscar Wilde h The punishment for bigamy is two mothers-in-law. h The purpose of the body is to carry the brain around. -- Thomas Edison h The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. h The race is not always to the swift... But that's the way to bet. -- Runyon h The Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi. h The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field: The speed of blight. h The real F-word is "future". -- The Covert Comic h The real thing does not advertise. h The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love. -- Don Rose h The reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. -- Bill Cosby h The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. h The rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost luggage. h The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision. h The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. -- Dewar h The role of culture is to enable us to talk nonsense with distinction. -- Maugham h The rooster may crow, but the hen delivers. h The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. h The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography. -- Mark Hogue h The scientific name for an animal that doesn't fight its enemies is "lunch". h The second best policy is dishonesty. h The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. -- Voltaire h The secret of life is to look good at a distance. -- Snoopy h The secret of success is discovering at an early age that you are not God. h The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made. h The secret told in confidence is repeated with the same discretion. -- McKeown h The seminar for time travel will be held two weeks ago. h The severity of an itch is inversely proportional to your reach. h The sex act is the funniest thing on the face of this Earth. -- Diana Rigg h The shortest distance between two jokes is a straight line. h The shortest distance between two points is no fun. h The shortest distance between two points is through hell. -- Brian Clark h The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Altito h The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick. h The Society of Independent People has no members. h The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. -- Ogden h The stapler runs out of staples only while you are trying to staple something. h The stock market takes the stairs up but the elevator down. h The supernova makes Mt. St. Helens and Krakatoa look puny. -- Time Magazine h The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made men think. h The things that interest people most are usually none of their business. h The three most expensive cuts: Sirloin, tenderloin, and vasectomy. h The three stages of sex in marriage: Tri-weekly; try-weekly; try-weakly. h The total intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. h The Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad. h The trouble with a kitten is that, when it grows up, it is always a cat. -- Nash h The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it. h The trouble with cash flow is that the tide always seems to be going out. h The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected. -- Henry Cate VII h The trouble with socialism is socialists, and with capitalism is capitalists. -- Willi Schlamm h The two great tragedies in life: Not getting what one wants, and getting it. h The two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. h The two most beautiful words in the English language: "Check Enclosed". h The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. h The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. -- Kilgore Trout h The universe is surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. h The universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Chilton h The vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. -- Broad h The voices in my head tell me I'm perfectly sane. -- Cristina Rad h The voices in my head told me to come over and talk with you. h The wages of sin are probably not what you're making now. -- John Taylor h The weather at home improves as soon as you go away. -- Gomme h The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful. -- Jimmy Buffett h The whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes. h The wind blows harder in the summer so the sun sets later. h The winds of change aren't what they used to be. -- Scott Adams h The wiser and more conscious you become, the crazier you will appear to others. h The Wonder Bra will give a cucumber a cleavage. h The word today is legs... Spread the word. h The world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys. -- Adams h The world is run by C students. h The world isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better. h The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey h The worst jolt most of us ever get is when we fall back on our own resources. h The worst thing about censorship is xxxxxxxxxx. h The worst you can say about God is that he's an underachiever. -- Woody Allen h The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience. h The zebra is chiefly used to illustrate the letter Z. h Therapy is expensive; popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose. h There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. h There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. h There are as many grammars as there are grammarians. -- Erasmus h There are better things than money in this life, but it takes money to buy them. h There are bunches of errors in this book, except this one. -- Christer Sundqvist h There are many excuses for being late, but there are none for being early. h There are many experts on child raising who have no children. -- Bill Cosby h There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them? h There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. h There are more collect calls on Father's Day than on any other day of the year. h There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it. -- Oliver Herford h There are more old drunkards than old doctors. h There are more things in heaven and Earth than anyplace else. -- Tom Weller h There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace. -- Dave Barry h There are no failures at a class reunion. h There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots. h There are people who mention the word "umbrella" for no apparent reason. h There are so many Smiths in the phone book because they all have phones. h There are three sides to every issue: For, Against, and "Who Cares?" h There are two instruments worse than a clarinet: Two clarinets. h There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Kissinger h There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them. -- Stengel h There is a 20% chance of tomorrow. h There is a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence. h There is a green, multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. -- Spock h There is a non-empty set in every aggregate, undoubtedly shouting something. h There is a time and a place for everything: 8 o'clock, my place, everything. h There is a vas deferens between men and women. h There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". h There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. h There is always more hell that needs raising. -- Lauren Leveut h There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. h There is an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about. h There is an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. h There is another advantage of being poor; a doctor will cure you faster. h There is at least one fool in every married couple. h There is exactly one true categorical statement. -- John Kessenich h There is intelligent life on Earth, but I am just visiting. h There is life after death: In Chicago, dead people are still allowed to vote. h There is no bad beer. Some kinds are better than others. -- German Proverb h There is no devil; it's God when he's drunk. h There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. -- Twain h There is no excuse for laziness, but I am working on it. h There is no fool like an old fool, because he's experienced. h There is no future in time travel. h There is no problem a good miracle can't solve. -- Shick h There is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. -- Mark Twain h There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -- Williams h There is no remedy for sex but more sex. h There is no room in the drug world for amateurs. -- Raoul Duke h There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes. h There is no such thing as a little garlic. h There is no time like the pleasant. h There is no time like the present to postpone what you ought to be doing. h There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax. h There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. -- John Ciardi h There is nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. h There is nothing wrong with you that Prozac and a polo mallet wouldn't fix. h There is nothing you can do that can't be done. h There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. -- Dali h There is only one way up a mountain, but 360 ways down. h There is so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? h There is so much to say, but your eyes keep interrupting me. h There is something to be said for originality, but I can't remember what it is. h There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong. h There isn't room enough in this dress for both of us. h There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life. h There's a lot to be said for denial; sit back and enjoy the ride! -- Chidester h There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. -- Garrison Keillor h There's only one alternative to getting older, so suck it up. -- Whoopi Goldberg h There's plenty of room at the bottom. -- Richard Feynman h They also serve who only pay their dues. -- The SETI League, Inc h They also surf who only stand on waves. h They call television a medium because it's neither rare nor well done. -- Kovacs h They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... -- last words of General Sedgwick h They said, "Say no to drugs," so I did, but it had no effect on my aspirin. h They took some of the Van Goghs, most of the jewels, and all of the Chivas! h Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -- Lily Tomlin h Things are more like they are today then they ever were before. -- Eisenhower h Things are more like they used to be than they are now. h Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other. h Things look better when they are falling down. -- Hanif Kureshi h Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. h Things to do today: 1. Get up. 2. Survive. 3. Go to bed. h Things to do today: 1. Hunt. 2. Gather. -- Bob Thaves h Things will be brighter tonight. A cop will shine a light in your face. h Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers h Things won't get any better, so get used to it. h Things work better if you plug them in. h Think honk if you are telepathic. h Think how much fun you could have with the doctor's wife and a bucket of apples. h Third marriage is the triumph of desperation over wisdom. h This aphorism would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. h This book fills a much-needed gap. -- Moses Hadas h This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. -- Guggenheim h This fortune is encrypted -- get your decoder rings ready! h This fortune is inoperative. Please try another. h This fortune was brought to you by the people at Hewlett-Packard. h This is a crude version of a more advanced joke that has never been written. h This is a good time to punt work. h This is a great day for France! -- Richard Nixon, at De Gaulle's funeral h This is a haiku. Well, I'm not so sure it is. Oh, wait, yes it is. h This is a recording. h This is as bad as it can get, but don't count on it. h This is National Non-Dairy Creamer Week. h This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, but thrown with great force. h This is the day for firm decisions! Or is it? h This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill h This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli, on physics paper h This land is your land. This land is my land. So stay on your land. h This may not be the best of all worlds, but it is certainly the most expensive. h This prediction will not come true. h This report is filled with omissions. h This sentance has threee errors. h This sentence contains ten words, eighteen syllables, and sixty-four letters. h This sentence no verb. h This statement is in no way to be construed as a disclaimer. h This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it. h This won't hurt, did it? h This won't hurt, I promise. h Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. h Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -- Groucho Marx h Those were the days... And the nights weren't bad either. h Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate. h Those who don't mingle will die single. h Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -- Olinghouse h Those who forget this sentence are condemned to reread it. -- Bill Yochum h Those who know, cannot explain; those who don't know, cannot understand. h Those who like sausages and the law had better not watch either one being made. h Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't. h Three good things about school: June, July, August. h Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars. h Three kinds of people in the world: Those who can count and those who can't. h Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Ben Franklin h Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything... -- Sartre h Thumbs Up to a Healthy Prostate! -- Ken Tough h Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. h Time flies when you don't know what you are doing. h Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space. h Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so. -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy h Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. -- Onsager h Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students. h Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. h Time's fun when you're having flies. -- Kermit the Frog h Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in LA. -- Wright h To attract a vegetarian, make a noise like a wounded vegetable. h To be safe, make a copy of everything before you destroy it. h To be, or not to be. -- Shakespeare... Oo-bee-doo-bee-doo. -- Sinatra h To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. h To discover a man's income, ask him what incomes should be exempt from taxation. h To err is human -- but it feels divine. -- Mae West h To err is human; to admit it is a blunder. h To err is human; to blame someone else for your errors is even more human. h To err is human; To forgive is Not Company Policy. h To err is human; to forgive is unusual. h To err is human; to moo, bovine. h To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake h To get holy water, boil the hell out of it. h To get it done: Do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. h To hell with deep thoughts, this is the mating process. -- Kevin Keirn h To keep milk from turning sour, you should keep it in the cow. h To know recursion, you must first know recursion. h To live to be 100, give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100. -- Woody Allen h To make a small fortune in the commodities market, start with a large fortune. h To make God laugh, tell him your plans. -- Carolyn Myss h To prevent conception when having intercourse, the male wears a condominium. h To pull a rabbit out of a hat, ensure you put one in there first. h To read about love and marriage, you must buy two separate books. -- Alan King h To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. h To split is human, to infinitive, divine. -- John Taylor h To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start. h To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. h To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question... Or is it? h To YOU I am an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. -- Woody Allen h Toastmaster: A guy who goes around introducing guys who need no introduction. h Today is a good day for you to jump in a lake. h Today is a good day to bribe a high ranking public official. h Today is the first day of the rest of the mess. h Today is the last day of the past of your life. h Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. h Today is the yesterday you will be embarrassed about tomorrow. h Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark. -- Rilla May h Tomorrow looks like a good day to sleep in. h Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest. h Too much is not enough. h Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL. -- Mae West h Toothaches tend to start on a Saturday night. h Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. -- Judy Garland h Tragedy: A busload of lawyers driving off a cliff with three empty seats. h Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy. -- Han Solo h Trends are the new trend. -- Reinier Evers h Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. h Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. -- Mark Twain h Truthful: Dumb and illiterate. h Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today. h Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance. h Try to look unimportant, they might be low on ammo. h Trying to define humor is one of the definitions of humor. -- Saul Steinberg h Trying to push your way through a door that doesn't open? Connect the dots. h Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week. h Turnabite is foreplay. -- Alan Silverstein h Twenty percent of zero is better than nothing. -- Walt Kelly h Two can live as cheaply as one for half as long. -- Howard Kandel h Two cars in every pot and a chicken in every garage. h Two heads are more numerous than one. -- Tom Weller h Two is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. -- Grabel h Two kinds of people: Those who love to talk, and those who hate to listen. h Two thousand mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds. h Two wrongs are only the beginning. -- Kohn h Two wrongs do not make a right, but the three... do. -- Deteriorata h Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane. h UFOs are real. The Air Force doesn't exist. h Unauthorized fornication with this equipment is disallowed. h Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is just the opposite. h Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes h Under-Achievers Anonymous has an 11-step program. h Unfortunately there is more to life than getting enough sleep. -- Alan Silverstein h University: An institution for the postponement of experience. h Unmatched: Almost as good as the competition. h Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. h Upon discovering the center of the universe, many will be sad they're not it. h Use the newest medicines quickly before their effectiveness runs out. h Use the word "paradigm" several times a day. -- Scott Adams h Using only a compass and straightedge, it's impossible to construct friends. -- Randall Munroe h Vacuum: A large, empty space where the Pope lives. h Ventis secundis, tene cursum. (Go with the flow.) h Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Dan Quayle h Verbs have to agree with their subjects. -- William Safire h Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters. h Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes. h Vescere bracis meis. (Eat my shorts.) h Vibration: A motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. h Violuminescence: Things that glow in the dark when smashed. -- Axel Emmermann h Virgin wool comes from ugly sheep. h Virginity can be cured. h Virtual reality is its own reward. h Virus: A Latin medical term, meaning, "Your guess is as good as mine". h VISA la France. (Don't leave the chateau without it.) h Visitors who throw litter into the crocodile pit will be asked to retrieve it. h Vital papers demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving. h Volcano: A mountain with hiccups. h Vote anarchist. h Vote yes on no. h Voting is like driving a car: Choose R to go backward, choose D to go forward. h Vuja De: The feeling that none of this has happened before. h Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- George Shaw h Walk a mile in his shoes, so if he gets angry, he is barefoot and a mile away. h Wall Street predicted nine out of the last five recessions. -- Paul Samuelson h Walt Disney didn't die. He's in suspended animation. h War is God's way of teaching us geography. -- Paul Rodriguez h War is menstruation envy. h Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear. h Warranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice. h Waste not, get your budget cut next year. h Water? I never touch the stuff: Fish make love in it. h We all get a little crazy now and then; the rest of the time we get big crazies. -- The Covert Comic h We all keep busy keeping each other busy. h We are all politicians. Some of us are just honest enough to admit it. h We are all self-made, but only the rich will admit it. h We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. h We are living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- Robertson h We are making progress. Things are getting worse at a slower rate. h We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fisher h We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. -- Dan Quayle h We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathan Swift h We are sorry. We cannot complete your call as dialed. h We are the people our parents warned us about. -- Jimmy Buffett h We aren't sure how clouds form. But they know, that is what counts. h We buy junk and sell antiques. -- sign in country store h We can all admit we like acronyms and leave it at that. -- Scott Adams h We can loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt. -- sign in bank h We can't all be heroes, someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. h We can't leave the haphazard to chance. -- N. F. Simpson h We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure. -- Richard Nixon h We dispense with accuracy. -- sign in pharmacy h We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company. h We don't have to protect the environment; the Second Coming is at hand. -- Watt h We don't really understand it, so we'll leave it for the poets. -- John Taylor h We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward. -- Dan Quayle h We have 64 arm bones but only 62 leg bones. The mistake is yet to be found. h We have been through so much together, and most of it was your fault. h We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART? h We have nothing to fear about work but the work itself. h We have the best politicians that money can buy. -- Edward Abbey h We have them just where they want us. -- James Kirk h We interrupt this fortune for an important announcement... h We learn by making better mistakes. h We live on one-third of what we eat, and the doctors live on the rest. h We need either less corruption or more chance to participate in it. h We put stamps on letters because we don't know where else to put them. h We totally deny the allegations, and we are trying to identify the allegators. h We will cross out that bridge when we come back to it later. h We will get along fine as soon as you realize I am God. h We will have solar energy when the power companies develop a sunbeam meter. h We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container. -- Sante Fe gas station h We're all on the road to the grave, but why be in the passing lane? -- Orben h We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. -- Dan Quayle h Wealth: The ability to support debt. h Weather forecaster: One with whom the weather does not always agree. h Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood h Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. -- Dan Quayle h Welcome to the Lou Holtz Show. Unfortunately, I'm Lou Holtz. h Well adjusted: Makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. h Well, gee, I don't know if I have mixed feelings about that or not. -- T. Gross h Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? -- Thurber h Well-adjusted: Able to play bridge or golf as if they were games. h What about an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? h What an elephant never forgets isn't worth knowing in the first place. -- The Covert Comic h What can't be said, can't be said. And it can't be whistled, either. -- Tirtha h What did God say after creating man? "I can do better." h What did you bring the book I want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? h What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist have in common? Their middle name. h What do women want? Nowadays mainly... Other women. h What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. h What do you call 1000 rabbits in a row hopping backwards? A receding hareline. h What do you call a lawyer buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand. h What do you call a river guide without a partner? Homeless. -- OARS river guide h What does DNA stand for? National Dyslexia Association. h What doesn't kill us makes us bitter. -- Chuck Lorre h What happens if you get scared half to death twice? h What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? -- Bertolt Brecht h What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes. h What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull. h What has reality ever done for anyone? h What I lack in actual talent, I make up for in work ethic. -- Kelly Ripa h What if there were no hypothetical situations? h What is a nice person like me doing in a place like this? h What is an atheist's favorite movie? "Coincidence on 34th Street" h What is another word for Thesaurus? -- Stephen Wright h What is Life? It's the cereal Mikey likes. h What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Key h What is orange and goes "click, click"? A ball point carrot. h What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey h What is the difference between a duck? One of its legs is both the same. h What is the difference between a viola and a violin? A violin burns faster. h What is the difference between government bonds and men? Bonds mature. h What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking someone to do. h What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. -- Baron de Montesquieu h What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula LeGuin h What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? -- J. D. Farley h What the tyrannosaurus lacked in arms he made up in other areas. -- Brett Nelson h What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five cent bagel. h What this country needs is more leaders who know what this country needs. h What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -- Peter Beagle h What was sliced bread the greatest thing since? h What! Me worry? -- Alfred E. Newman h What's the point of being God if you can't even fulfill your own prophecies? -- Cristina Rad h What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. -- Fry h Whatever became of eternal truth? h Whatever is your lot in life, build on it. h Whatever it is, I am against it. h Whatever it is, I didn't do it! h Whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee. h Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first. h When a girl goes bad -- men go right after her. -- Mae West h When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him, "Whose?" -- Marquis h When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. -- Edward Abbey h When a person brags about his ancestors, the best part of him is underground. h When all else fails, lower your standards. h When all else fails, try reading the directions. h When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. -- Mark Twain h When anything is used to its full potential, it will break. h When crazy people go through the forest, they take the psycho path. h When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. h When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve. h When God created two sexes, he might have been overdoing it. -- Charles Smith h When God endowed human beings with brains, he did not intend to guarantee them. h When God gives you AIDS... make lemonAIDS. -- Sarah Silverman h When I born I was so surprised, I didn't talk for a year and a half. -- Allen h When I look at my children, I often wish I had remained a virgin. -- L. Carter h When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up. -- Rodney Dangerfield h When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman h When I was a Brownie, I ate all the cookies. -- Madonna h When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West h When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded. h When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. h When in doubt, lead trump. h When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. h When it comes to helping you, some people stop at nothing. h When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. -- Voltaire h When it rains, it pours. h When it's you against the world, bet on the world. h When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. h When management wants your opinion, they will give it to you. h When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. h When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. -- Tom Lehrer h When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas h When one door closes, another opens, but the hallways are hell. -- Sol Wachler h When pigs back into an electric fence, there is a short circus. h When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket signs? h When someone says, "It ain't the money, but the principle," it's the money. h When talking nonsense try not to be serious. h When the going gets tough, everyone leaves. -- Lynch h When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. h When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter Thompson h When there's a will, I want to be in it. h When they ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in? h When this sign is under water, this road is impassable. -- sign on rural road h When working hard, be sure to get up and retch every so often. h When working on a problem, it helps to know the answer. h When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut. h When you breathe you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire. h When you can't make all of the pieces fit, throw one away. h When you die at 72, not matter what you die of, it's natural causes. -- Chris Rock h When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS. h When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. h When you feel terrific, notify your face. -- H. Jackson Brown h When you finally discover all of life's answers, they'll change the questions. h When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. h When you mention something, if it's bad, it happens, if it's good, it goes away. h When you sit too long on the ice, you get a polaroid. h When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. h When you're old and something hits you, you don't bounce back from it, you skid. h When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. -- LBJ h When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China. h When your memory goes, forget it! h When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. h Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really". -- Parnas h Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. h Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"? h Where does a 300 pound gorilla sleep? Anywhere he wants! h Where in the world does the guy who has everything put it? h Where is Denver? Denver is just below the O in Colorado. h Where there's a whip, there's a way. h Where there's a will, there's a relative. h Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax. h Wherever you go, there you are. h Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story. h Whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. h Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Neither, it was the rooster. h Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares? h While in jail a man worked on his alibiography. -- Henry Cate h While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. h Whining martyrs get a lot of stage time. -- Scott Adams h White dwarf seeks red giant for binary relationship. h Who am I to criticize another maniac? h Who are these children, and why are they calling me Mom? h Who cares about procreation, as long as it tickles? h Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"? -- Hattie McDaniel h Who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. h Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -- Edward Abbey h Who needs companionship when you can sit alone in your room and drink? h Who was that masked man? h Who's on first? h Whoever it was who told you you were wrong was right. -- Tom von Alten h Whoever put the second S in the KISS principle added 33% needless complexity. -- The Covert Comic h Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. h Why are there flotation devices under airplane seats instead of parachutes? h Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? h Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting? h Why are today's rough times always tomorrow's good old days? h Why argue when we both know I am right? h Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could be impossible? h Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we use the ones we have? h Why can't elephants play tennis? They don't make tennis shoes in their size. h Why did God give us ten fingers and only two nostrils? h Why did the chicken cross the road? He was giving it last rites. h Why did the chicken cross the road? The rooster was on the other side. h Why did the elephant cross the road? Chicken's day off. h Why did the politician cross the road? To get to the middle. h Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side. h Why didn't Noah just swat those two mosquitos? h Why do expenses always rise to meet income? h Why do men die before their wives? They want to. h Why do people who know the least know it the loudest? h Why do we sing, "Take me out to the ball game" when we're already there? h Why do you change your image so often? "To entertain myself." -- Madonna h Why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? -- Larry Anderson h Why does a ship carry cargo and a truck carries shipments? h Why does bread always fall butter side down? h Why does sour cream have an expiration date? -- Larry Anderson h Why does the other lane always move faster? h Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? h Why doesn't life come with subtitles? h Why don't "minimalists" find a shorter name for themselves? h Why don't blind people bungee jump? Because it scares hell out of their dogs. h Why go elsewhere and be cheated when you can come here? -- sign in store h Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? h Why is "palindrome" spelled "palindrome" and not "palindromeemordnilap"? h Why is brassiere singular and panties plural? h Why is charging ahead OK, but charging an arm and a leg is not? -- Alan Driscoll h Why is it called "rush hour" when nothing moves? h Why is it called a "building" when it is already built? h Why is it that there are so many more horses' asses than horses? -- Liddy h Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? h Why is there a "permanent press" setting on an iron? h Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it's said? h Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? -- Lily Tomlin h Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? h Why listen to reason when insanity prevails? h Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde h Why would anyone want to be called Later? h Wilderness: A place where something might eat you. h Willie was a chemist; Willie is no more. What Willie thought was H20 was H2SO4. h Wine and youth increase love. h Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. h Wisdom is only happening to guess right. -- Euripides h With a rubber duck, one's never alone. h With enough garlic, you can eat the New York Times. -- Morley Safer h With enough thrust, pigs fly just fine. h With sex, who cares if practice doesn't make perfect. h Withhold from screaming when you hear the phrase, "Let's just be friends..." h Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless. h Without life, biology itself would be impossible. h Woman was God's second mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche h Women fake orgasm because men fake foreplay. h Women like the simplest things in life... Men. h Women most enjoy receiving the kind of letters that should never be written. h Women need a reason to have sex; men just need a place. -- Billy Crystal h Women sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the do-it-yourself type. h Women speak in estrogen but men listen in testosterone. h Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal. -- Steve Rubenstein h Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking. h Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. -- Edward Abbey h Women want one man to meet every need; men want every woman to meet one need. h Women want their men to be deep, but they don't want to hear about it. h Women who carry a little extra weight live longer than men who notice it. h Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition. h Women who love only women may have a good point. -- Edward Abbey h Women, to make a man happy, all you must do is show up naked. h Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try. -- Edward Abbey h Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -- Oscar Wilde h Work is the greatest thing in the world; always save some of it for tomorrow. h Work off excess energy. Steal something heavy. h Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work. h Would a fly without wings be called a walk? h Would it help if I got out and pushed? h Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up. h Write all adverbial forms correct. h Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. -- William Safire h Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. h Yale is one big party... With a $25K cover charge. h Yawning is an orgasm for your face. -- Gunvar Ingeborg h Years of development: We finally got one to work. h Yes, it works well in practice, but will it work in theory? h Yesterday was the deadline on all complaints. h Yield to temptation; it might not pass your way again. h YKK on a zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha. h Yo-yo: Something occasionally up but normally down (see also "computer"). h You are confused; but this is your normal state. h You are entitled to your own wrong opinion. h You are halfway through life before you realize it's a do-it-yourself thing. h You are here. But you are not all there. h You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike. h You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different. h You are never going to fail unless you try. h You are not abusing drugs if they're stored in a dry place and never yelled at. h You are not as fat as you imagine. -- Mary Schmich h You are not fat if clothes are actually made in your size. h You are not from Earth, are you? h You are not overweight if you can still touch somebody's toes. h You are not paranoid if they're really after you... h You are still sober as lounge as you can still say your worms promperly. h You are ugly and your mother dresses you funny. h You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. h You are warm and giving toward others. What are you after? h You aren't a real engineer until you make one $50,000 mistake. h You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you? h You can drive through Wyoming at night and still see the scenery. -- Vodall h You can fool some of the people all of the time... But you can't fool Mom. h You can fool some of the people some of the time, and that is sufficient. h You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word. h You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. h You can lead a horse to water, but if he walks on it, patent him. h You can learn many things from children... Like how much patience you have. h You can never find a lost-and-found when you need one. -- Greg Clifford h You can observe a lot just by watchin'. -- Yogi Berra h You can rent this profound space for only $5 a week. h You can tell if you're on the right track -- it's usually uphill. h You can tell the men from the boys by the price of their toys. h You can't belay a man who's falling in love. -- Edward Abbey h You can't feel as bad as you look. Or look as bad as you feel. -- Edward Abbey h You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out. h You can't fool me -- there ain't no sanity clause. -- Chico Marx h You can't get there from here. h You can't have Kate and Edith too! h You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. -- Armir, age 9 h You can't legislate against human nature. -- Robert Reuben h You can't see the forest if you're barking up the wrong tree. h You cannot buy beer; you can only rent it. h You cannot determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter. h You cannot have everything because where would you put it? -- Christer Sundqvist h You could be playing a video game instead. h You couldn't pay me to work on commission. h You don't have to be weird to be my friend, I'm willing to train you. h You don't know what you want, and are willing to go through hell to get it. h You don't know what you're talking about, do you? h You don't need a parachute to skydive, only to skydive twice. -- Darwin Awards h You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. h You gotta break some eggs to make a real mess on the neighbor's car! h You have a right to your opinions. I just don't want to hear them. h You have an important role as a negative example. h You have been selected for a secret mission. h You have good manners, but never carry them about you. -- Fuller h You have the body of a 19 year old. Please return it before it gets wrinkled. h You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You will learn a lot today. h You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does. h You know how happy a motorcyclist is by the bug stains on his teeth. h You know you are a little fat if you have stretch marks on your car. -- Cyrus h You know you are over the hill when work is less fun and fun is more work. h You know you have landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. h You know you're getting old when you hurt yourself sleeping. -- Billy Gardell h You know you're old when your back goes out more than you do. h You look like a million dollars... All green and wrinkled. h You made me think. I will be wary of you in the future. h You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love. h You never find a lost item until after you replace it. h You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach. h You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge. -- Whistler h You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. -- John Barrymore h You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. h You now have Asian Flu. h You say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words. h You shake milk in a big stirrer machine to make it homicidal. h You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. h You should hardly ever equivocate. h You sound reasonable... Must be time to up my medication. h You were conspicuous by your absence. -- Lord John Russell h You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier. h You will be surprised by a loud noise. h You will become rich and famous, unless you don't. h You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass. h You will feel hungry again in another hour. h You will live a long full life and gradually decay into a useless blob. h You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money. h You will never hit your finger if you hold the hammer with both hands. h You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard. h You will soon forget this. h You will step on the night soil of many countries. h You will wish you hadn't. h You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard h You would if you could but you can't so you won't (and probably shouldn't). h You! Off my planet! h You'll find it all at Greeley Mall. -- Radio advertisement h You're never too old to learn something stupid. h You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. -- Dean Martin h You're not late until you get there. h You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -- Robin Williams h You're only young once, but it makes you tired for the rest of your life. h Your boss is the biggest obstacle to workday leisure. -- Scott Adams h Your chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to... uh... h Your check is in the mail. h Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now). h Your intuition nearly makes up for your lack of good judgment. h Your love life will be... Interesting. h Your lucky number has been disconnected. h Your lucky number is 364958674928. Watch for it everywhere. h Your reasoning is silly and irrational but it is beginning to make sense. h Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. h Your weapon is made by the lowest bidder. h Your weight is perfect for your height -- which varies. h Youth is too good to be wasted on the young. -- George Shaw h Zenophobia: The irrational fear of convergent sequences. h Zoo: Place devised for animals to study the habits of human beings. -- Herford h [He] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill h [Nuclear war]... may not be desirable. -- Edwin Meese III p "Do-so" is more important than "say-so". -- Pete Seeger p "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". p "For example" is not proof. -- Yiddish proverb p "I really don't believe that, but I was raised that way." -- Carolyn Myss p "Keep the tourists out..." As fellow tourists we heartily agree. -- Edward Abbey p "Know thyself"? If I knew myself, I'd run away. -- Johann von Goethe p "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." p "Things" are thieves of time. p ...context... -- Manny Farber p 1. Thought is creative. 2. Fear attracts like energy. 3. Love is all there is. p A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. p A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg p A beggar can never be bankrupt. -- John Ray p A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on earth. p A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. p A boss says, "Go!" A leader says, "Let's go!" -- E.M. Kelley p A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. -- John Steinbeck p A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby. -- Jason Fried p A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. p A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. p A child does not need to be parented. He needs to be mothered and fathered. p A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. -- African proverb p A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. -- Prochnow p A civilized society makes swords into decoration. -- Danny Low p A clash of doctrine is not a disaster; it is an opportunity. p A clever prophet makes sure of the event first. p A closed mouth gathers no foot. p A collection of facts not necessarily science. -- Henri Poincar p A company is known by the people it keeps. p A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. -- Victor Hugo p A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann von Goethe p A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. p A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper. -- Dyer p A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once. p A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. -- Kenneth Tynan p A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey p A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. p A cult becomes a religion when it begins to kill those outside its membership. p A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths. -- James Carse p A cynic is a disappointed lover. p A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. p A day without fear changes your life forever. -- Jerry Stocking p A deceased body harms the mind. p A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. p A disease known is half cured. p A doctor gets no pleasure out of the health of his friends. -- de Montaigne p A donkey raised among horses is still a donkey. p A drastic change to stay where you are always puts you in a different place. p A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not read. -- Talmud p A drill is a tool. A hole is a solution. p A dry cough is the trumpeter of death. p A dying man can do nothing easy. -- Benjamin Franklin p A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. p A family is the difference between a house and a home. p A fault recognized is half corrected. p A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. -- George Herbert p A fellow with a closed mind often has an open mouth. p A flood of words over a desert of thought. -- Simon Bolivar p A fool and his money are soon parted. p A fool and his words are soon parted. -- William Shenstone p A fool with tool is still a fool. p A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Emerson p A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson p A friend in need is a friend indeed. p A friend is one with whom you dare to be yourself. p A friend to everyone is a friend to no one. p A full belly makes a dull brain. p A full heart should not go where an empty mind leads. p A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible. -- Edward Abbey p A goal is a dream with a deadline. (But do you really need a deadline?) p A god can create a world only by listening. -- James Carse p A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. p A good example is the best sermon. -- H. Jackson Brown p A good memory does not equal pale ink. p A good painter can draw a devil as well as an angel. -- G. Delamothe p A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously. -- Edward Abbey p A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. -- Patton p A good supervisor can step on your toes without messing up your shine. p A good tale cannot too often be told. -- Sir T. More p A good tongue is a good weapon. -- James Kelly p A good word costs no more than a bad one. -- B. Googe p A good workman is known by his tools. p A government able to give you all you want can also take away all you have. p A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on Paul's support. p A grasshopper has 100 more distinct muscles than a human. p A great idea needs landing gear, not just wings. p A great person never reminds us of others. p A great ship asks deep waters. -- George Herbert p A half-truth is closer to falsehood than to veracity. -- Abba Eban p A hammer sometimes misses its mark; a bouquet, never. p A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold. p A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. -- David McCord p A hard life is a free lesson in poetry. -- John Taylor p A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat. -- Solomon p A heavy purse makes a light heart. p A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. -- Samuel Butler II p A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity. p A hero is a man who does what he can. -- Romain Rolland p A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. -- Brander Matthews p A house is a large liability masquerading as a safe asset. -- Morgan Housel p A house without books is like a room without windows. -- Horace Mann p A joke breaks no bones. p A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tzu p A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. -- Molire p A learned man always has wealth within himself. p A leopard cannot change his spots. -- William Shakespeare p A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. -- Cicero p A liar needs a good memory. -- Quintilian p A lie has a short life, but truth lives on for ever. -- Solomon p A life without tragedy would not be worth living. -- Edward Abbey p A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. p A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. p A little fire consumes a great wood. -- Roger Edgeworth p A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. -- C. E. Ayres p A little knowledge can be a ridiculous thing. -- Scott Adams p A little sunlight is the best disinfectant. -- Justice Louis Brandeis p A living dog is better than a dead lion. -- Old Testament p A log may float in a river, but that does not make it a crocodile. p A long life deprives man of his optimism. -- Ernest Hemingway p A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. -- George Herbert p A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. p A love for the land does not necessarily equate with good care of the land. p A loving mate can see the good in you even when you cannot. p A man can do everything with a sword except sit on it. -- Talleyrand p A man can do no more than he can. p A man can only be young once, but he can be immature forever. -- Catherine Aird p A man cannot be in two places at the same time. p A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself. p A man doesn't become a failure until he is satisfied with being one. -- Henry Cate p A man is a lion in his own cause. p A man is known to be mortal by two things, sleep and lust. -- Francis Bacon p A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Barrymore p A man is not so soon healed as hurt. -- Porter p A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. -- Thomas Draxe p A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven. p A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. -- Havelock Ellis p A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say. -- Finley Dunne p A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either. -- Soren Kierkegaard p A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. -- Montaigne p A man will never change his mind if he has no mind to change. -- Trench p A man with two clocks never knows exactly what is the time. p A man without reason is a beast in season. -- Howell p A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. p A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. p A man's envy alludes to where his ambition fails. -- William Wall p A man's home is his castle. p A man's library is his map drawn to scale. -- John Taylor p A man's praise in his own mouth stinks. p A man's soul may be buried under a pile of money. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne p A mantra is a training device to break you out of your attachments. -- Ram Dass p A mask tells us more than the face. -- Oscar Wilde p A mathematician knows how to solve a problem, but can't do it. -- Milne p A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. p A mind that is stretched by an idea will never return to its original size. p A mink is just a high-budget weasel. p A miracle is not an event that heals the physical body, but the mind and spirit. p A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Holmes p A moneyless man goes fast through the market. -- Fuller p A museum is a collection of labels, illustrated by specimens. -- George Goode p A mushroom cloud has no silver lining. p A nerd is simply someone who thinks exceedingly inside the box. -- Nassim Taleb p A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. -- Ronald Reagan p A page of history is worth a volume of logic. p A peaceful man is the first criterion if you want to have a peaceful universe. p A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. -- Gloria Steinem p A penalty for hubris is always exacted. -- Jon Bayh p A pencil with no point needs no eraser. p A person before birth knows exactly what they're buying into. -- Ram Dass p A person forgives only when he is in the wrong. p A person is just about as big as the things that make him angry. p A person paints with his brains and not with his hands. p A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald p A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. -- la Bruyere p A plagiarist steals a writer's mental children. -- Isaac Asimov p A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. p A poet is born not made. p A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. -- Bryce p A poor man sells his saucepan to buy something to put in it. p A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea. p A pragmatist is one who's ideology/theology has failed. -- Herbert Schlossberg p A prediction is but an explanation in advance. -- James Carse p A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. -- Madison p A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world as a public indecency. p A problem found by appraisal must be found and fixed each time it occurs. p A problem found by solution is gone forever. p A problem is nothing more than a solution in disguise. -- John Taylor p A productive drunk is the bane of moralists. p A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. -- Thomas Jefferson p A project not worth doing at all is not worth doing well. p A proliferation of theories is a symptom of a lack of data. -- Eddington p A prophet is not without honor save in his own country. -- New Testament p A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. -- Aeschylus p A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. -- Miguel de Cervantes p A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. -- Bacon p A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. p A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. p A relationship cannot be healthier than both people. p A Renaissance man refuses to define himself. p A rich person is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least. p A ringing telephone is a request, not an order. p A rising tide lifts all boats. -- Sean Lemass p A rolling stone gathers no moss. -- Publilius Syrus p A scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. p A scientist must be successful and not a success-fool. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p A second class effort is a first class mistake. p A second fault ought not to be pardoned. -- G. Delamothe p A secret is too little for one, enough for two, too much for three. p A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James p A serious work in philosophy could be written that consisted entirely of jokes. p A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. -- Dutch proverb p A short prayer penetrates heaven. p A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin p A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. -- Ezra Pound p A small fire makes often a great smoke. -- G. Delamothe p A small leak will sink a great ship. -- Benjamin Franklin p A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt p A snowflake near lightspeed completely obliterates a planet, even Jupiter. -- Axel Emmermann p A standard that no one follows is worse than useless; it is a waste of time. p A stitch in time saves nine. p A straight stick is crooked in the water. p A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -- O'Henry p A stupid person cannot be advised. -- Lawrence Hirsch p A system meant for common use should rarely need uncommon knowledge. -- Redford p A tale never loses in the telling. p A teacher affects eternity. -- Henry Adams p A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. -- Fuller p A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. p A thing is not true for you until it is true in thought, word, and deed. -- God? p A third party cannot mediate a dispute if they are even subtley involved. p A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. p A tree is known by its fruit. -- New Testament p A tribe is a group of people who honor the same perceptions. -- Carolyn Myss p A true leader cannot make anyone do something they do not want to do. -- Sir Chris Bonington p A true sign of wealth is free time -- freedom from drudgery. -- Daniel Newman p A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. -- Blake p A violent man will die a violent death. -- Lao Tsu p A vision is only as good as the clarity of the image presented. -- TWendle p A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. -- Herbert Simon p A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered. -- Ralph Emerson p A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. p A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. -- George Herbert p A wise man is never surprised. -- Horace p A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. p A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire p A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast. -- E. W. Howe p A woman is as old as she looks to a man who likes to look at her. -- Finley Dunne p A woman is as young as she feels like telling you she is. p A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't. p A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem p A word in time is worth two afterwards. -- James Carmichaell p A word to the wise is enough. -- Miguel de Cervantes p A writer must not shift your point of view. -- William Safire p A writer without an audience is a writer; a writer with an audience, very lucky. p A yawn is a silent shout. -- G. K. Chesterton p A young man might have more money than brains -- but not for long! p A [person] without religion is like a fish without pajamas. -- J. Powers p Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. -- Napoleon p Above all things, reverence yourself. p Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Sextus Propertius p Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. p Absence sharpens love. Presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Fuller p Absence works wonders. -- Tottel p Abstraction is representing the whole by a part of the whole. p Accept forgiveness as a way of life. p Accept loneliness as normal, merely a sign that action is required. -- Will Limon p Accept your ordination. -- Carolyn Myss p Achilles cannot defeat the tortoise if he thinks of space and time. -- Valery p Action is the antidote to despair. -- Joan Baez p Action is what separates an opinion from a belief. -- Patel p Action makes more fortune than caution. p Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. p Actions speak louder than words. -- Confucius p Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through hardships.) p Adaptation precludes adaptivity. -- Carl White p Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit. (Add little to little, get big pile.) p Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you. It's your cage. -- Bruce Alexander p Admit it, unplug, and get it over with. -- Carolyn Myss p Adolf Hitler made a mistake admiring Napoleon's strategy. p Advances are made by answering questions... Discoveries by questioning answers. -- Bernard Haisch p Adversity introduces man to himself. p Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. -- John Ray p Advice from an old carpenter: Measure twice, saw once. p Advice is a dangerous gift; be cautious about giving and receiving it. p Advice is a form of nostalgia. -- Mary Schmich p Advice is least heeded when most needed. p Advice only works for the people that give it. -- Scott Adams p Advocacy addiction limits our ability to learn from others; use inquiry instead. p Affection blinds reason. -- J. Howell p Affection makes a fool of any man. -- Ben Jonson p After a calm comes a storm. -- Thomas Draxe p After a storm comes a calm. p After age 30, we are all in extra innings. -- Alan Silverstein p After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. -- Whetstone p After enlightenment, do the laundry. -- Zen proverb p After pleasure comes pain. -- J. C. Bridge p After the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box. -- Italian proverb p Age before beauty; and pearls before swine. -- Dorothy Parker p Age does not protect you from love, but love somewhat protects you from age. p Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. p Age is a high price to pay for maturity. p Age is like love, it cannot be hid. -- Dekker p All are given the key to heaven's gates; the same key opens the gates of hell. p All are not merry that dance lightly. p All are not thieves that dogs bark at. p All art is but imitation of nature. -- Seneca p All clouds bring not rain. p All dreams are possible until proven otherwise. -- Kenny Loggins p All education is accompanied by pain. -- Aristotle p All finite play is play against itself. -- James Carse p All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. -- Edward Abbey p All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. -- Dumas p All gold is fool's gold. -- Edward Abbey p All good work is done in defiance of management. -- Tom Peters p All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? -- Edward Abbey p All great discoveries are made by mistake. -- Young p All great discoveries have been made from a willingness to not be right. -- God? p All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time. p All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Shaw p All hope abandon, ye who enter here! -- Dante Alighieri p All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you. p All I know is, I will get guidance when I need it. -- Carolyn Myss p All I need to do is change one attitude and that is enough to change my world. p All I want from you is your joyful sharing. -- Lee Coit p All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. p All inventions are force multipliers. p All is fair in love and war. p All is not gold that glitters. p All is not lost that is delayed. -- A. Boyer p All is well that ends well. -- John Heywood p All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly p All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. -- Richard Dawkins p All limits must be zero, one, or infinite. p All machines are amplifiers. p All may begin a war, few can end it. p All men are mortal. -- Haughton p All men know the utility of useful things, but know not the utility of futility. p All modern thought is permeated by the idea of thinking the unthinkable. p All my life I wanted to be someone; I should have been more specific. -- Wagner p All obstacles not foreseen will be tripped over. p All pain other than physical arises from failed expectations. p All people smile in the same language. p All philosophy lies in two words: Sustain and abstain. -- Epictetus p All professions are organized conspiracies against the laity. -- Russell p All progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Shaw p All relationship is a mirror of your relationship with yourself. -- Deepak Chopra p All roads in the Middle East lead to the bizarre. -- John Chanselor p All roads lead to Rome. -- La Fontaine p All that is said in the kitchen should not be heard in the hall. p All that we may see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe p All the world's churchyards are full with irreplaceable people. p All things are good untried. -- James Carmichaell p All things come to he who waits. p All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. p All things merge into one, and a river runs through it. -- Norman McLain p All things obey money. -- Guazzo p All truth, like love, is eternal -- while it lasts. -- William Etkin p All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... -- Francois Fenelon p All we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. -- Georg Hegel p All you accomplish by defending someone is to concede that he needs a defense. p All you have to offer another human being, ever, is your own state of being. p All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. p All your fears must be embraced, entertained, honored, and you go on with them. p Allow each soul to walk its path. -- Conversations with God p Allow others to make educational mistakes. p Allow your children to face the consequences of their actions. -- Brown p Almost everything is easier to get into than out of. p Almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep. -- H. Jackson Brown p Almost was never hanged. -- Roger Edgeworth p Alternatives exclude. Saying "yes" to one thing says "no" to another. -- Neifert p Always be careful to make a bad impression on undesirables. p Always do what you are afraid to do. -- Emerson p Always find time for that which makes you happy to be alive. p Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. p Amateurs talk strategy while generals talk logistics. p Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -- Oscar Wilde p America's best buy for a nickel is a telephone call to the right person. p Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense. p Americans do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other possibilities. -- Winston Churchill p An addict bonds with heroin because he can't bond as fully with anything else. p An American is a man with two arms and four wheels. -- A Chinese child p An aphorism is a one-line novel. -- Leonid Sukhorukov p An apple a day keeps the doctor away. p An argument is the longest distance between two points. p An armed society is a polite society. p An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. -- Edward Abbey p An army marches on its stomach. -- Napoleon p An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. p An atheist is one point beyond the devil. -- Fuller p An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. p An average person laughs about 15 times a day. p An easy answer to every human problem: Neat, plausible, and wrong. -- Mencken p An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. -- Eugene McCarthy p An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow. -- Benjamin Franklin p An ego trip takes you nowhere. p An emotionless life is biologically impossible. -- Lawrence Hirsch p An empty man is full of himself. -- Edward Abbey p An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. -- Thomas Draxe p An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. -- Albert Einstein p An enduring paradox of the human mind is that it doesn't know itself very well. p An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. -- Miller p An expert is a person who knows his limitations. p An expert is an ordinary guy 50 miles from home. p An expert knows no more than you do, but has it better organized. p An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. p An honest answer is a sign of true friendship. -- Solomon p An honest man's the noblest work of God. -- Alexander Pope p An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. p An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. p An idea is only as good as its execution. p An idea well-expressed is like a design of gold, set in silver. -- Solomon p An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. -- Henry Ford p An idle brain is the devil's shop. -- W. Perkins p An incorrect belief may still benefit its believer. p An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus p An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin p An occasion lost cannot be redeemed. -- John Ray p An open auction extracts the highest price from any buyer. p An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh. p An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. -- Booker p An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation. p An ounce of emotion equals a ton of facts. p An ounce of good fortune is worth a pound of forecast. -- Fuller p An ounce of vanity can ruin a ton of merit. p An owl is the king of the night. -- Thomas Draxe p An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue. p Analogies prove nothing... But they can make one feel at home. -- Freud p And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. -- Housman p And only the good die young. -- Billy Joel p And that's the way it is... -- Walter Cronkite p And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. -- Isaiah 56:12 [NSV] p Angels do not support BS. -- Carolyn Myss p Anger goes after the first available target. -- Reggie Rivers p Anger is a short madness. -- Taverner p Anger kills as surely as the other vices. p Animals cannot be harvested. They mature, but they do not ripen. -- James Carse p Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. -- Pyrrhus p Answers almost never fulfill the promise of our questions. -- John Taylor p Anxiety is a condition of the privileged. p Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. -- Charles McCabe p Any difference that makes a difference is information. -- Gregory Bateson p Any difference that makes no difference is noise. -- Gregory Bateson p Any doom that can be predicted won't happen. -- Scott Adams p Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop p Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. -- Carnegie p Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it. -- Thoreau p Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it. p Any illusion requires both time and space to be experienced. p Any man who thinks of himself as therapy should not have a license to practice. p Any negativity can make you sick. -- Carolyn Myss p Any new tax law must exempt enough voters to win the next election. p Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Harris p Any reality that you get stuck in is the wrong one. -- Ram Dass p Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur Clarke p Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable. p Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. -- Gehm's corollary p Any time that you crave, there is always going to be suffering built right in. p Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -- Publilius Syrus p Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it. -- Oscar Wilde p Anyone can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. -- Cicero p Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. -- Judge Learned Hand p Anyone who wants to rule, should, ipso facto, not be allowed to do so. p Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. -- Rotsler p Anything free comes with no guarantee. p Anything free is worth what you pay for it. p Anything is easy if someone else does it for you. p Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. -- Papert p Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about. p Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Rich Rosen p Anything is possible, unless it is not. p Anything that sticks out usually gets hammered back in. p Apparently there are multiple way sto invoke multiple universes. p Appearance VERSUS reality? Appearance IS reality... -- Edward Abbey p Appearances often are deceiving. -- Aesop p Apply good consumerism to your love relationships. -- Will Limon p Approach your limits from the safe side. -- Volker Hetzer p Architecture is frozen music. -- Hegel p Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they are yours. -- Richard Bach p Armed with these patterns, we go forward and brilliantly predict... the past. -- Allan Roth p Art has no enemy but ignorance. -- Ben Jonson p Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. -- Picasso p Art is never finished, only abandoned. -- Leonardo da Vinci p Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. -- G. K. Chesterton p As a man lives, so shall he die; as a tree falls, so shall it lie. p As a rule, pantheism is only a respectful variety of atheism. -- Schopenhauer p As average skill increases, it's more difficult to outperform by large margins. -- Larry Swedroe p As far as the question of Martian life, if we don't go, we won't know. -- Robert Zubrin p As for the future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it. p As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote. p As is the mother, so is her daughter. -- Old Testament p As life is to live, so love is to give. -- Patricia Barc p As others hurt and betray us, so are we the perpetrators of pain. -- Will Limon p As silent as the grave. -- Robert Stevenson p As soon as man is born he begins to die. p As the area of your knowledge grows, so does the perimeter of your ignorance. -- Neil Tyson p As the body becomes more limited, the soul expands. -- Dustin Hoffman p As the question, so the answer. -- Torriano p As the radius of knowledge increases, so does the circumference of ignorance. p As we let our own light shine, we give others permission to do the same. p As we migrated into Europe we discovered something new, called winter. -- Paul Stamets p Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; if God won't have you, the devil must. p Ask a self-answering question; get a self-questioning answer. -- John Flagg p Ask much to have little. p Ask no questions and you will be told no lies. -- Charles Dickens p Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -- John Donne p Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of. -- Gibson p Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Mill p Assertiveness is essential to a healthy relationship. p Assume the worst, hope for the best, accept reality. -- Morgan Housel p Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. -- Wethern p Asteroids are nature's way of asking, "How's that space program coming along?" p Astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it. -- George Herbert p At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. -- George Orwell p At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class. -- Beck p At four we know all the questions. At eighteen we know all the answers. p At retirement, human capital falls to zero. -- Pfau and Kitces p At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry. p At the moment of meeting, the parting begins. p Attachments fall away like a snake sheds its skin. -- Ram Dass p Attack the problem, not each other. -- Will Limon p Auribus teneo lupum. (I hold a wolf by the ears.) p Authority should command respect, not demand respect. p Autocracy is based on the theorem that one man is smarter than many. p Autograph your work with quality. p Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance. p Avoid unnecessary dependency on large scale, harmful predictions. -- Nassim Taleb p Avoidable complexity should indeed be avoided. p Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure to it. p Bad is never good until worse happens. -- Danish proverb p Bad money drives out good money; new love drives out old love. p Barbarian: Thinks the customs of his tribe and island are laws of nature. p Barking dogs seldom bite. p Be a Fundamentalist -- ensure the Fun always comes before the mental. -- Bhaerman p Be a good listener 'cause you never learn much from talking. -- Will Rogers p Be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. -- Conversations with God p Be agreeable in manner, and resolute in action. -- Lord Chesterfield p Be an expert on what's strong, not on what's wrong. -- Will Limon p Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann p Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. -- Mary Webb p Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Homer p Be careful about what you teach your children. They might believe you. p Be careful what you plug yourself into. -- Carolyn Myss p Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. p Be cheerful while you are alive. p Be conservative in what you generate, but liberal in what you accept. p Be emotionally prepared to walk away from any deal that doesn't work for you. p Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself. -- Andre Gide' p Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. -- Warren Buffett p Be good and you will be lonesome. -- Mark Twain p Be happy with the real pleasures in life. p Be humble or you will stumble. p Be in the world but not of it. -- Meher Baba p Be kind and courteous to everyone. -- Peter Chantilis p Be moderate where pleasure is concerned, avoid fatigue. p Be nice to people on your way up; you'll meet them on your way down. -- Mizner p Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are. -- St. Gregory I p Be not simply good -- be good for something. -- Henry Thoreau p Be organized: This is a euphemism for being efficiently lazy. -- Isaac Asimov p Be self-reliant and your success is assured. p Be spontaneous! p Be sure your ladder of success is leaning against the right wall. -- Dobson p Be the most positive person you know. p Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. -- William Shakespeare p Be to friends' virtues very kind; be to their faults a little blind. p Be willing to lead your life, not just follow it. p Beauty and chastity seldom agree. p Beauty fades like a flower. p Beauty has nothing to do with the package I come in; it is just what I radiate. p Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. p Beauty is one of the rare things which do not lead to doubt of God. -- Anouilh p Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent. p Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit. -- Lyly p Beauty that doesn't make a woman vain makes her very beautiful. -- Josh Billings p Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. p Become famous for finishing important, difficult tasks. -- H. Jackson Brown p Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. -- Senator Bill Bradley p Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. -- Hallock p Before buying a piece of property, walk around its perimeter. p Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. -- Chinese p Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of anyone's ego. p Before you accuse, walk a mile in their shoes. p Before you kill the cat, make arrangements for the mice. -- Sufi proverb p Beg from beggars and you will never be rich. p Beggars cannot be choosers. p Begin a lesson with a humorous illustration. -- the Talmud p Begin well, end badly; begin badly, end worse. p Behaviors don't continue unless we get something for them, even just attention. p Behind all individual differences there turns out to be only one of us. p Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. p Being brave does not mean going out looking for trouble. p Being consistent is less important than being happy. -- Marlo Thomas p Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up makes it permanent. p Being deserving of praise blinds us to flattery. -- William Wall p Being flexible is how you exercise your adult part. p Being human involves becoming a burden. -- Roy Bonisteel p Being lazy will make you poor, but hard work will make you rich. -- Solomon p Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle. -- George Herbert p Being part of the tribal mind is part of your evolution. -- Carolyn Myss p Being predictable in your style puts you at the mercy of your adversary. p Being right is seldom enough. Even the best ideas must be packaged and sold. p Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock... -- Edward Abbey p Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. -- Edward Abbey p Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge. -- Johann von Goethe p Believe and ye shall receive. p Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear. -- Mulock p Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. p Believing God created it all is religion. Wondering how it works is science. p Best is best cheap. -- Wolcot p Best to bend it while it is a twig. p Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. -- Edward Abbey p Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. -- Chinese proverb p Better a lean peace than a fat victory. -- Sanford p Better a little loss than a long sorrow. -- Langland p Better an open enemy than a false friend. p Better clean death than dirty life. -- Frank Herbert p Better late than never. -- Titus Livius p Better living a beggar than buried an emperor. p Better safe than sorry. p Better some of a pudding than none of a pie. -- John Ray p Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. p Better the foot slip than the tongue. -- Sanford p Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. -- Publilius Syrus p Better to be patient on the road than a patient in the hospital. -- C. Jenkins p Better to be poor and fear the Lord than to be rich and in trouble. -- Solomon p Better to be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. -- Clarke p Better to reign in Hell then serve in Heaven. -- Milton p Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. p Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. p Better untaught than ill taught. -- John Ray p Between a good reputation and great wealth, choose a good reputation. -- Solomon p Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes... -- Henry Thoreau p Beware of the man of one book. -- George Herbert p Beware of the man who has no enemies. -- Edward Abbey p Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question. p Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true. -- Edward Abbey p Beware substantiation of abstracta, which leads to fallacies. p Beware temptation -- the more of it you see, the better it looks. p Beware the legless man who teaches running. p Beware the wrath of a patient person. p Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. -- Barbara Taylor p Big brother isn't watching you, you're watching big brother -- all 181 channels. p Bigger isn't always better, but better will always get bigger. -- Kevin Jones p Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams p Birds of a feather flock together. p Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic. p Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Pope p Blessings on him that invented sleep! -- Cervantes p Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols p Blood is thicker than water. p Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. p Books as well as food nourish and warm people. Books make connections. -- Sarton p Boredom: The desire for desires. -- Leo Tolstoi p Borrowed garments never fit well. -- Fuller p Boys will be boys. p Break a few rules. p Brevity is the soul of wit. p Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. p Build a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. p Build something foolproof and every fool will use it. p Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice. p Bumper sticker: My politics don't fit on a bumper sticker. -- John Shelton p Bureaucracy: A giant mechanism operated by pygmies. -- Honor de Balzac p Business first and pleasure afterwards. -- Surtees p Business is a combination of war and sport. -- Andre Maurois p Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. -- Austin O'Malley p But "yes" can mean so many things. -- John Taylor p But how can fame and profit concern a man of genius? -- Li Ch'i p But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin p But it does move! -- Galileo Galilei p Buy low, sell high. p By allowing her to be totally herself... She frees me to to be totally myself. p By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. p By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be far apart. p By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. p By the time everyone agrees, it is too late. p By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. p By their fruit you will recognize them. (By their works ye shall know them.) -- Matthew 7:16 p Cabbage has a higher yield per acre than any other vegetable. p Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb p Calling religion a mental illness is really insulting to mentally ill people. -- Cristina Rad p Can anyone remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? -- Ralph Emerson p Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. p Cancer cures smoking. p Capability does not imply intent. p Capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. -- Charlie Munger p Capitalists will sell themselves the rope to hang themselves with. p Care is no cure. -- Greene p Carpe diem: Seize the day. p Carrying resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die. p Cast not out the foul water till you bring in the clean. -- James Carmichaell p Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. p Celebrity isn't an achievement in itself. -- Carol Loomis p Certain actors in history change the world by staging their own defeat. -- Wolf p Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur p Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign. -- France p Change your mind as often as the facts change. -- Morgan Housel p Change your thoughts and you change your world. p Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. -- Michener p Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. -- Robert Freeman p Character is the power to change the face of things. p Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight Moody p Charity begins at home. p Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. -- Edward Abbey p Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. p Chastity and virtue are their own punishment. p Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy. -- Edward Abbey p Chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. -- Alex Comfort p Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap. p Check again to ensure it's not loaded. p Children are poor men's riches. p Children become ready for toilet training and independence at the same time. p Children have more need of models than of critics. p Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. p Choice is a terrifying power. -- Carolyn Myss p Choice of words is spontaneous but no accident. -- NLP p Choice within constraint is essential; choice without constraint is paralyzing. -- Barry Schwartz p Choose happiness for yourself regardless of what others do. p Choose not a spouse by the eye only. p Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. -- George Shaw p Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. -- Herodotus p Citizens want honest politicians until they want something fixed. p Civility is a sign of strength, not weakness. -- Peter Chantilis p Civility means obeying the unenforceable. p Civilization is limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Twain p Civilization is what the neutron bombs are supposed to leave intact. -- Enright p Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey p Civilizations that make it in the long run must reintegrate into the biosphere. -- Adam Frank p Clarity is power. -- Buckminster Fuller p Classy: You have a lot to say, but remain silent in front of fools. p Cleanliness is next to Godliness. p Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. -- Thomas Szasz p Cleopatra lived closer in time to WWII than the building of the Great Pyramid. p Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides p Cloning is unnatural, but unnatural isn't... a synonym for bad. -- Richard Dawkins p Clothes make the man. p Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.) -- Rene Descartes p Collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. -- Freeman Dyson p College is a refuge from hasty judgment. -- Robert Frost p Comedy is tragedy plus time. -- Steve Allen p Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. -- McWilliams p Coming events cast their shadows before. p Command yourself to feel good about yourself. -- Carolyn Myss p Commit, and then figure it out. -- Jimmy Chin p Commitment is making time when there is none. p Commitment is the stuff character is made of. p Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. p Common minds discuss people; moderate minds, events; great minds, ideas. p Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. -- Josh Billings p Common sense is not so common. -- Voltaire p Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. -- Coleridge p Communication is next to impossible with someone who has no doubts. -- Will Limon p Communications are the lifeblood of a relationship, carrying the nutrients. p Companionship is often shared loneliness. -- Herbert Salzer p Compensate complexity with simplicity. -- Nassim Taleb p Competence always contains the seeds of incompetence. p Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld p Concepts without words have no existence, and words without concepts no meaning. p Concrete is heavy; iron is hard -- but the grass will prevail. -- Edward Abbey p Conflict is inevitable but not necessarily bad. -- Paul Gillette p Conflict is not possible without communication. -- Fred Jandt p Confusion can be both pleasant and helpful. p Conquer yourself instead of the world. -- Rene Descartes p Conscience is God's presence in man. -- Swedenborg p Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde p Consciousness is a full-time job. -- Carolyn Myss p Consciousness is not an emergent property of the universe, but fundamental. -- Christof Koch p Consciousness means freedom from attachment. -- Ram Dass p Consensus is no substitute for leadership; it is the result of leadership. p Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. -- Mark Twain p Consider all outcomes before taking a step, and spend your life on one leg. p Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. p Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde p Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. -- John Sloan p Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. p Constant reorganization is the hallmark of a dynamic organization. p Contentment is the smother of invention. -- Laura Watson p Contexts serve as (mental) primers. -- Ellen Langer p Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. p Convincing yourself that a bad idea is a good idea is a bad idea. p Cooler heads will prevail. p Cooperation: Doing with a smile what you are forced to do. p Corporations as persons, not property, let them deny the rights of real persons. p Correlation does not imply causation. p Costs are not losses. -- Richard Thaler p Counsel must be followed, not praised. -- Lyly p Courage is grace under pressure. p Courage is not the absence of fear but the conquest of it. -- Scott Cochran p Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart p Covetousness brings nothing home. p Cowards are cruel but the brave love mercy. -- Gay p Cream rises to the top, but so does scum. p Creation is a mighty joke, but the laugh is at my own expense. -- Meher Baba p Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which to keep. p Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you are doing. p Creativity, like love, should be diagnosed retrospectively. -- John Schimel p Credible people sign their work. p Creditors have much better memories than debtors. p Crisis is a motivator for change. p Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. -- Zeuxis p Cult: A small, unpopular religion. Religion: A large, popular cult. p Cultivate happiness and it becomes a habit. p Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. p Curiosity is ill manners in another's house. -- Oudin p Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens p Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman p Darkness is cheap. -- Charles Dickens p Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. p De gustibus non es disputandum. (In matters of taste there can be no disputes.) -- old Roman axiom p Dead men tell no tales. p Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you. p Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they should not be simultaneous. -- Mack p Death is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You just don't dwell on it. -- Nance p Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. -- Edward Abbey p Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down. p Death is the one experience that we cannot put in perspective afterwards. p Death is the ultimate low, from which we do not recover. -- Kevin Keirn p Death keeps no calendar. -- George Herbert p Death pays all debts. p Debunking misinformation is an order of magnitude harder than creating it. -- Brandolini p Decisions terminate panic. p Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. -- Thomas Draxe p Deeds are males, and words are females. -- Sanford p Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. p Degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. -- Bruce Levine p Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferson p Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -- Parkinson p Delusion fends off disillusion. -- Ben Staub p Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. -- Nehru p Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. -- Mencken p Democracy is the worst form of government -- except for all the others. p Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think. p Democracy means only that people are sovereign; not that they are infallible. -- Rod Dreher p Dependable is not the same as accurate. -- Frederick Brooks p Depression is anger without enthusiasm. p Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face. p Desire for greatness prevents its achievement. p Desire has no rest. p Desire unacted is corruption. -- Ursula LeGuin p Desires and longings are the root cause of all suffering. -- Meher Baba p Desires are nourished by delays. p Despair is the necessary prerequisite for the next level of consciousness. p Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. p Details call things into being. -- Leonard Bernstein p Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we will find the way. p Devil's advocacy is an honorable profession. p Did God the designer choose a method designed precisely as if he wasn't there? -- Richard Dawkins p Difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. -- Confucius p Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -- Oscar Wilde p Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. -- De Fenelon p Discussions of morality must inevitably lead to immoral statements. -- Bradshaw p Disengage from consumerism as the main avenue of experience. p Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. p Divine justice, and how it plays out, is perfect. -- Carolyn Myss p Divorce can be a creative experience. -- Will Limon p DNA is not really a thing, it is a memory. -- Deepak Chopra p Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more. p Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. -- Seneca p Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth. -- Socrates p Do not be intimidated by reality. p Do not be overly suspicious where it is not warranted. p Do not beg trouble from the future. -- Nancy Kirkwood p Do not believe everything you hear or anything you say. p Do not clog intellect's sluices with bits of knowledge of questionable uses. p Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop p Do not cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. -- Nassim Taleb p Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Heinlein p Do not judge a book by its cover. p Do not learn the tricks of the trade; learn the trade. p Do not seek answers that cannot be given; you would not be able to live them. p Do not stoop to tie your laces in your neighbor's melon patch. p Do not think by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. p Do not triumph before the victory. p Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. -- George Shaw p Do not worry about which side your bread is buttered on: You eat BOTH sides. p Do one thing every day that scares you. -- Mary Schmich p Do the thing and have the power. -- Ralph Emerson p Do to others as you would have them do unto you. p Do unto others as they would have you do unto them. -- Haley p Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto you. p Do what you love, and follow your passion. -- Jim and June Spencer p Do what you want -- but KNOW what you are doing. -- Kenny Washington p Do you ever just seem to not be able to get around to procrastinating? p Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. -- Pascal p Doctors do not cry but men do. -- Harry Weiss p Doctors think many patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. -- Herold p Does this path have a heart? -- Carlos Castaneda p Dog wisdom: Avoid biting when a simple growl will do. p Dog wisdom: Eat with gusto and enthusiasm. p Dog wisdom: If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it. p Dog wisdom: Let others know when they have invaded your territory. p Dog wisdom: Take naps and stretch before rising. p Dog wisdom: Thrive on attention and let people touch you. p Dogma takes over when facts fail. p Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. -- Camden p Doing gets it done. p Doing is demonstrating that you know something. p Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness. p Doing your best is more important than being the best. -- Cathy Rigby's mom p Dollar-cost average your entire life, you'll beat almost everyone who doesn't. -- Morgan Housel p Don't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you? -- Scott Pelley p Don't be ashamed to say what you are not afraid to think. -- Montaigne p Don't be mad about growing old. Some aren't that lucky. p Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. -- Mary Schmich p Don't be so afraid of making a mistake that you can't make a decision. p Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want. -- Brown p Don't burn any bridges you might need to cross again later. p Don't change a hair for me, not if you care for me. -- Lee Coit p Don't compare your insides with other people's outsides. p Don't confuse mere inconveniences with real problems. -- H. Jackson Brown p Don't confuse motion with progress (or effort with results). p Don't confuse things that need action with those that take care of themselves. p Don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. -- Mary Schmich p Don't count the days. Make the days count. -- Muhammed Ali p Don't cross the bridge till you get to it. -- Longfellow p Don't die until you're dead. -- Billy Connolly p Don't do something. Just stand there. -- Vanguard founder Jack Bogle p Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back. p Don't expect drastic changes fast. Good practices require practice. -- Hanson p Don't find fault, find a remedy; anyone can complain. p Don't get even -- get better. -- Carolyn Myss p Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. p Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. -- Confucius p Don't judge your insides by other peoples' outsides. p Don't just adopt opinions; develop them. p Don't keep going to the well when the well is dry. p Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. p Don't let editors edit the life out of your sentences! -- Isaac Asimov p Don't let God laugh alone. -- Josef Engressia p Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. p Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. -- Jerry Dunn p Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. p Don't look for the right person; be the right person. -- Will Limon p Don't make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything. p Don't make it a project. Much of the joy of things lies in their serendipity. p Don't meet troubles half-way. -- Christer Sundqvist p Don't outlive your money. -- H. Jackson Brown p Don't panic; calmness attracts answers. p Don't pet a dog you have just kicked. p Don't pick a fight with an old man. If too old to fight, he'll just kill you. p Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. p Don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want to see in print. -- Young p Don't run from love. There is no other direction. p Don't send your spirit on missions of destruction. -- Carolyn Myss p Don't speak about Time, until you have spoken to him. p Don't stop along the way at all. That's illusion too. -- Ram Dass p Don't stop to step on the ants when the elephants are stampeding. p Don't take anything seriously except happiness. -- Albert Camus p Don't teach your children what to think; just teach them to think. -- Tannenbaum p Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. -- Paul Brandt p Don't think that a house covered with snow has no fire in it. -- George Shaw p Don't try to have the last word -- you might get it. -- Lazarus Long p Don't try to pitch from third base. p Don't use big words for little matters. -- Samuel Johnson p Don't use yesterday as an excuse for not being fine. -- Carolyn Myss p Don't use your powers, let them go. -- Ram Dass p Don't Worry, Be Happy. -- Meher Baba p Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be. -- Bill Maher p Draw a circle around your love and hate will walk the line. -- Hugh Prather p Draw your salary before spending it. p Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley p Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. -- James Dean p Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. -- George Herbert p Dry socks are far more important than clean underwear. -- Len McDougall p During depressions, assets return to their rightful owners. -- Andrew Mellon p During the lows I find hope in knowing another high will come along. -- Keirn p Duty is what one expects from others. p Each bird loves to hear himself sing. -- Howell p Each circumstance is a gift, and in each experience is hidden a treasure. -- God? p Each day can be whatever it is, and it's all right. -- Ram Dass p Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. p Each of us bears his own Hell. -- Publius Maro p Each one of us is an experiment-of-one. -- George Sheehan p Each one of us is plugged into a schemata of archetypal patterns. -- Carolyn Myss p Each person's journey into consciousness recapitulates all of man's journey. p Each problem solved introduces a new unsolved problem. p Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. p Earth is the cradle of reason, but it's impossible to live eternally in cradles. -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky p Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. p Easy come, easy go. p Eat to live, and not live to eat. -- Benjamin Franklin p Eat, drink, and be merry. p Eclipses clearly illuminate numerous features of society. -- David Daye p Economic compulsion determines ethical perspective. -- Lawrence Hirsch p Economy makes men independent. p Educated: Can hear almost anything without losing temper or self-confidence. p Education consists of pounding abstract ideas into concrete heads. p Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudice. -- Peter p Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant p Education is a weapon. -- Josef Stalin p Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. -- Edman p Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. p Education makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. -- Thoreau p Eighty percent of success is showing up. -- Woody Allen p Eliminate any artificial "creativity" processes in the company. -- Scott Adams p Emotion: Energy in motion. p Emotions honestly tell what is your investment and what are your expectations. p Empowering your child does not depower you. -- Barbara Coloroso p Endurance is not toleration. p Enemies are people whose story you haven't heard yet. p Energy flowing through a system organizes that system into greater complexity. -- Alan MacRobert p Energy flows where attention goes. -- Christiane Turner p Engineering is the art of knowing how to avoid difficult issues. -- Dr. Budak p Engineering is the art of making the impossible possible. -- Robert Zubrin p Engineers are the natural enemies of marketing people. -- Scott Adams p Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. -- Mary Schmich p Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think. -- Rasmus Petersen p Ensure your mind makes contracts your body can meet. p Envy and mediocrity are an explosive mixture. -- Irvine Page p Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors. p Envy provides the mud that failure throws at success. p Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology. -- Blaauw p Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. -- Hermann Hesse p Eureka! -- Archimedes p Even a cabbage can look at a king. p Even a hawk is an eagle among crows. p Even a straight line is art in someone's eyes. p Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. p Even if a marriage is made in heaven the maintenance must be done on Earth. p Even if we fail, we'll learn. -- Hachiro Shimanuki p Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. p Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -- Kehlog Albran p Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. p Even the finest of cookbooks is no substitute for the poorest of dinners. p Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. p Every 5-7 years, people forget that recessions occur every 5-7 years. -- Morgan Housel p Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. p Every activity takes more time than you have. p Every attempt to impose order leaves something outside the frame. -- Carlo Rovelli p Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. -- Paulo Coelho p Every child is gifted and talented. You just have to pull it out. p Every clarification breeds new questions. p Every cloud engenders not a storm. p Every cloud has a silver lining. -- Gilbert p Every cubic inch in space is a miracle. -- Walt Whitman p Every day you add one more day to your history. -- Carolyn Myss p Every erroneous inference involves admitting insufficient evidence as data. p Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -- Tom Stoppard p Every fool aspired to be a knave. -- Mackay, of the South Sea Bubble p Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. p Every genius is a child, every child is a genius. p Every good idea started out as a bad idea. -- Doug Baskins p Every horse thinks his own pack the heaviest. p Every human is... that profound secret and mystery to every other. -- Dickens p Every intelligent conversation is punctuated by periods of silence. p Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. p Every man a little beyond himself is a fool. p Every man dies... Not every man truly lives. -- William Wallace p Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. -- Disraeli p Every man has a scheme that absolutely will not work. p Every man has his price. Every price has its man. p Every man has two vocations: His own and philosophy. -- Edward Abbey p Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times. -- George Herbert p Every man is a king in his own house. p Every man is all of man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre p Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse. -- Miguel de Cervantes p Every man is best known to himself. -- Thomas Draxe p Every man is mad on some point. p Every man is the architect of his own fortune. p Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and no one can be of help. p Every man likes his own thing best. p Every man loves what he is good at. -- Shadwell p Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells. -- Wilson p Every medal has its reverse. p Every mile is two in winter. -- George Herbert p Every minority group in order to survive works harder than usual. -- Katchalski p Every moment is precious. And precarious. -- Edward Abbey p Every nation has the government it deserves. -- Joseph De Maistre p Every new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. -- Harvey Allen p Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew. -- H. Jackson Brown p Every oak has been an acorn. p Every patient is a doctor after they are cured. p Every pawn move loosens the position. -- Siegbert Tarrasch p Every person has a unique tongue print. p Every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. -- Paulo Coelho p Every purchase has its price. p Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. -- Emerson p Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. -- Oscar Wilde p Every single person has his or her divine purpose for being here. -- Carolyn Myss p Every single person you relate to has a completely different culture. -- Coit p Every truth starts life as a heresy and ends life as an orthodoxy. -- Aldous Huxley p Every truth that finally wakes up in you changes the rules of your life. -- Carolyn Myss p Every why hath a wherefore. p Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Beckett p Everybody has something to conceal. -- Humphrey Bogart p Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. -- Dykstra p Everybody ought to have a friend. p Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. p Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgement. p Everyone does better when everyone does better. -- Hightower p Everyone in favor of birth control has already been born. -- Laurence Peter p Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. p Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. -- Daniel Moynihan p Everyone is ignorant -- only on different subjects. -- Will Rogers p Everyone is in the best seat. -- John Cage p Everyone is partly man and partly woman. -- Virginia Woolf p Everyone is someone's fool. p Everyone knows what ought to be done with everyone else's children. p Everyone loves praise. Look hard for ways to give it to them. -- Brown p Everyone stays busy keeping other people busy. p Everyone thinks of changing mankind, but no one thinks of changing himself. p Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change their mind. p Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. -- Ian Maclaren p Everyone's faults are written in their foreheads. p Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. -- Paulo Coelho p Everything bows to success, even grammar. -- Victor Hugo p Everything changes but change itself. -- John F. Kennedy p Everything expands to fill the available space. p Everything goes wrong at once. p Everything has an end. p Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -- Confucius p Everything has some value -- if you use the right currency. p Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. -- Warren p Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. -- Robert Heinlein p Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. -- Johann von Goethe p Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. -- Carl von Clausewitz p Everything in your universe becomes your teacher. -- Ram Dass p Everything is negotiable. p Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever. p Everything must have a beginning. p Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. p Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein p Everything takes longer than you think it will. -- Murphy p Everything tends toward chaos. -- John Quill Taylor p Everything that goes up must come down. p Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. -- Bill Maher p Everything will kill you, but without it you would be nothing. p Evil is never intended as evil. -- James Carse p Evil is the termination of infinite play. -- James Carse p Evil is... the restriction of all play to one or another finite game. -- James Carse p Evolution is a theory that accounts for variety, not superiority. -- Joan Pontius p Examine what is said, not him who speaks. -- Arab proverb p Example has more followers than reason. -- Christian Bovee p Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. p Excellence is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle p Excellent things are hard to come by. -- Clarke p Exceptions are pernicious because they conceal laws. -- Henri Poincar p Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. -- Marcus Aurelius p Executives count their beans instead of feeling passion about customers. p Exotic foreign places don't seem exotic to the people who live there. p Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. p Expectations are resentment in training. -- Cindy Ryk p Experience is a hard teacher for it gives the test first and the lesson later. p Experience is sometimes dangerous. -- Florio p Experience is the father of knowledge and the mother of wisdom. p Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde p Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. p Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Franklin p Experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post. p Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. p Expert advice is a great comfort, even when it is wrong. -- Ellen Currie p Explanation is an antagonistic encounter. -- James Carse p Express an opinion, but send advice by freight. p Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -- Willard Gaylin p Expressing negative emotions contributes to recovery from hurts. p Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan p Extraordinary people use their wisdom to avoid the need for their skill. p Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. p Extroverts must talk to think; introverts must think to talk. p e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 p Face reality: Consistently adequate is good enough. -- Marianne Neifert p Facts are meaningless except as part of a system. -- Morris Cohen p Facts are stubborn things. -- Tobias Smollett p Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley p Facts, apart from their relationships, are like labels on empty bottles. p FAIL = First Attempt In Learning. p Failure is falling down. Success is getting back up. p Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. p Failure is the path of least persistence. p Failure teaches success. p Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. p Fair words and foul play cheat both young and old. -- Mapletoft p Fair words hurt not the mouth. p Fair words make me look to my purse. -- George Herbert p Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. p Faith is believing what you know ain't so. p Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. -- Bill Maher p Faith without works is dead. -- New Testament p Fake news has real consequences! -- John Martin p False hope is better than no hope at all. p False modesty is the refuge of the incompetent. p Fame is a magnifying glass. p Fame is but the breath of the people. p Fame is proof that people are gullible. -- Ralph Emerson p Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. -- Socrates p Familiarity breeds contempt. -- Augustinus p Fancy gizmos don't work. p Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth. p Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. -- Ambrose Bierce p Fate knows best sometimes. -- John Taylor p Fatigue is the best pillow. p Fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe. -- McWilliams p Fear is the result of impurity. -- Ram Dass p Fear of death is worse than death itself. p Fear teaches us in the most graphic terms just what it is we value. -- Will Limon p Fear: False Expectations About Reality. p February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. p Feelings are neither good nor bad; they are just indicators. -- Will Limon p Few lawyers die well; few physicians live well. p Few men have the ambition to be great, although many aspire to be thought so. p Few of us seem to realize that pleasure is not the same as happiness. -- Highet p Few people recover from having had a childhood. -- Robert Niland p Few things in life are as kind as forgetfulness. p Few words and many deeds. p Few, if any, survive their teens. -- Maya Angelou p Fields with the word "Science" in their names usually aren't. p Fifty percent of something is better than 100 percent of nothing. -- Suze Orman p Fighting for peace is like making love for virginity. p Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. -- C. H. Grosvenor p Financial diversification means always having to say you are sorry. -- Brian Portnoy p Find a job you love, and you will never have to work again. -- Mark Twain p Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -- Arnold Glasow p Find time to work smarter. p Find ways to be wealthy that don't depend on earning cash or buying things. p Fine words dress ill deeds. p Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. p Finite play is inherently contradictory; infinite play is paradoxical. -- James Carse p Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries. p Fire is a low-temperature phenomenon... in the universe. -- Arthur Clarke p Fire, water, and money are good servants but terrible masters. p Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to tightness of schedule. p First come, first served. p First deserve, and then desire. p First in time, first in right. -- Colorado water law p First step to getting what you want: Courage to get rid of what you don't want. p First think, and then speak. p Fish and visitors smell in three days. p Fish or cut bait. p Fix the problem, not the blame. p Flattery is like cologne: To be smelled, but not swallowed. -- Josh Billings p Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. -- Muhammed Ali p Focused action beats brilliance any day. -- Art Turock p Follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it. p Follow the river and you will get to the sea. p Follow your bliss. -- Joseph Campbell p Folly grows without watering. -- George Herbert p Fond of the game, but no fool -- a real man. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine p Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. -- Walt Kelly p Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. -- Scotti p Fools are always at the bottom of the food chain. -- Cesare p Fools don't attempt suicide; rather, they succeed at it. -- John Taylor p Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. p For best results, authority and responsibility should be commensurate. p For courage mounteth with occasion. p For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. -- R. Clopton p For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. p For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think. -- Moberly p For humans, honest is a matter of degree. -- Scott Adams p For life to have meaning, one must have something significant yet to do. p For the love of lust is the root of all evil... Lust came before money. p For the love of money is the root of all evil. -- New Testament p For the unlearned, old age is winter. For the learned, it's the harvest season. p For thee the wonder-working Earth puts forth sweet flowers. -- Titus Carus p For us there is only the trying. -- T. S. Eliot p Forbidden fruit is sweet. -- Old Testament p Force has no place where there is need of skill. -- Herodotus p Forget what you know and learn. -- Roger von Oech p Forget your troubles as easily as you do your blessings. -- NRTA Journal p Forgive us, for we also know not what we don't. -- John Taylor p Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy p Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mohandas Gandhi p Forgiveness means giving up your right to punish another. p Forgiveness of another is a gift you give to yourself. p Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us. p Fortune favors the brave. p Fortune knocks at least once at every man's gate. p Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she has bestowed no favors. p Freedom begins between the ears. -- Edward Abbey p Freedom is its own punishment. -- P.J. O'Rourke p Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better. -- Albert Camus p Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. -- George Orwell p Freedom is the recognition of necessity. -- Spinoza p Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. -- John Diefenbaker p Freedom isn't free; it is purchased by respecting the liberties of others. p Freedom of the press belongs to he who owns one. p Freedom, not safety, is the highest good. -- Edward Abbey p Friends agree best at a distance. p Friends are people you can be quiet with. p Friends are thieves of time. p Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. p Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Jones p Friendship cannot stand always on one side. p Friendship is forgetting what you give and remembering what you receive. p Friendship is one mind in two bodies. -- Mencius p From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. -- Marx p From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud p From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. -- Denis Diderot p From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance. -- Mapletoft p Fruit ripens not well in the shade. -- Fuller p Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams p Fuzzy project goals avoid the embarrassment of estimating the costs. p Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison p Genius is born, not paid. -- Oscar Wilde p Genius is seeing origins. p Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. p Genius might have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. p Genuine travel has no destination. -- James Carse p Genuine travelers travel not to overcome distance but to discover distance. p Geologic time is measured by mass extinctions. -- Charlene Anderson p Get even... With the people who have helped you. p Get up one time more than you are knocked down. -- Peter p Getting old is giving up one damn thing after another. -- Irvin Yalom p Ghosts are the insomniacs among the dead. -- Louis Jenkins p Gifts blind the eyes. p Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it. p Give me a fish and I will eat today. Teach me to fish and I will eat forever. p Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war. -- Napolean p Give religion privilege, and it gets corrupted. -- Martin Marty p Give the Devil his due, but be careful that there ain't much due him. p Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkner p Given enough time, almost everything will occur. p Given sufficient time, what you put off doing today will get done by itself. p Giving away your personal power is an explosive fuel for power struggles. p Giving leadership to those incapable of governing themselves is foolishness. p Giving to the poor insures their predicament. p Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte p Glory to the pattern finders. They make sense out of apparent chaos. -- Raham p Goals... Plans... They're fantasies, part of a dream world... -- Wally Shawn p God came to the United States in the form of LSD. -- Ram Dass p God can make an ass with three tails, but not a triangle with four sides. p God comes to see without a bell. p God complains not, but does what is fitting. -- George Herbert p God does not play dice with the universe. -- Albert Einstein p God gives burdens; also shoulders. p God gives us the nuts, but he does not crack them. -- German proverb p God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space. p God heals and the doctor takes the fee. -- Benjamin Franklin p God is a comic playing to an audience afraid to laugh, with no front row. p God is an artist who paints with broad strokes. p God is great, too great for me. -- Kurt Tucholsky p God is not all-powerful as he cannot build a wall he cannot jump. -- Pascal p God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. -- Alfred Jarry p God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God? p God made man, but Samuel Colt made men equal. p God made the country, and man made the town. p God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker p God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated. p God makes and man shapes. p God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. -- Albert Einstein p God meditates in geniuses, dreams in poets, and sleeps in other people. p God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. -- Emerson p God sends cold after clothes. p God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. -- Thomas Deloney p God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm. -- Delamothe p God walking on Earth is more important than man walking on the Moon. -- Jim Irwin p God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. p God works with you, not for you. p God's career would end tomorrow were there no more problems. -- Neale Walsch p God's mill grinds slow but exceedingly fine. p God, it looks like it's going to be you and me for the rest of my life. -- Coit p Gold that's put to use more gold begets. -- William Shakespeare p Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. -- Steven Jobs p Good beginning makes a good ending. p Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. -- Henry Haskins p Good counsel never comes too late. p Good fortune will find you, providing you gave directions. p Good gift: Someone really wants it, but feels guilty buying it for themselves. -- Dan Ariely p Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness the poison. p Good judgement comes from experience, which comes from bad judgement. p Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed. p Good listeners make good lovers. p Good management is knowing what's fundamental to success and what's not. -- Adams p Good manuals are not written... They are rewritten. p Good memories have ill judgements. -- James Kelly p Good men are scanty, make much of one. -- Fletcher p Good nature and good sense must ever join; to err is human, to forgive, divine. p Good poetry and bad poetry look pretty much the same at fifty yards. -- Taylor p Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Godwin p Good that the teeth guard the tongue. p Good things come in small packages. p Good to begin well, better to end well. p Good words are worth much, and cost little. -- George Herbert p Good, to forgive; best, to forget. -- Robert Browning p Gossip is so tasty, how we love to swallow it! -- Solomon p Government is the last solution but the first suggestion for many problems. p Governments lie; newspapers lie; but in a democracy they are different lies. p Grace is more beautiful than beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson p Gratitude is a lively sense of future favors. -- Sir Robert Walpole p Gratitude is the memory of the heart. -- J. B. Massieu p Great achievements require relatively few ideas and even less men. -- Uhrin p Great acts are made up of small deeds. -- Lao Tsu p Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. -- Edward Abbey p Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. -- Edward Abbey p Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. -- Victor Hugo p Great businesses must survive bad managers because eventually they'll have to. p Great expectations lead to great disappointments. p Great intellects are skeptical. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p Great love and great achievements involve great risk. -- H. Jackson Brown p Great men have great faults. -- Thomas Draxe p Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. -- Washington Irving p Great opportunities to help others seldom come; small ones surround us every day. p Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. p Greater qualities are necessary to bear good fortune than bad. -- La Rochefoucald p Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. p Grown men do not need leaders. -- Edward Abbey p Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey p Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb at. p Half the truth is often a great lie. -- Benjamin Franklin p Half the world knows not how the other half lives. -- J. Hall p Handle yourself with your head, handle others with your heart. p Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. p Happiness equals reality minus expectations. -- Tom Magliozzi p Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. -- Jonathan Swift p Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. p Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Levant p Happy folks do not make history. -- French proverb p Happy is he that is happy in his children. -- Fuller p Happy is the man who becomes wise, who gains understanding. -- Solomon p Happy-go-lucky people can only be happy when they are lucky. p Hard facts are hard to beat. p Hard reality has a way of cramping your style. -- Daniel Dennett p Haste makes waste. -- R. C. Trench p Hasten slowly. -- Suetonius p Hate is a disease, and tolerance is the cure. -- Dennis Shepard p Hate stirs up trouble, but love overlooks all offenses. -- Solomon p Hate the sin and love the sinner. -- Mohandas Gandhi p Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. -- Fosdick p Hatred is blind, as well as love. -- Fuller p Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love. -- Buddhism p Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it. -- Salvador Dali p Have no friends not equal to yourself. -- Confucius p Have preferences, not expectations; make choices, not demands. p Have the courage to be honest with yourself. -- Carolyn Myss p Have you ever gone out to see how much fun you'd be to be with? -- Lee Coit p Have you tried on your smile today? p Having a mind of one's own doesn't necessarily imply having any mind as such. p Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. -- Benjamin Franklin p Having made one lie, he is fain to make more to maintain it. -- Fuller p Having no security is better than thinking you have security when you don't. p Having nothing, nothing can he lose. -- William Shakespeare p Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. -- Socrates p He bears misery best that hides it most. -- Harvey p He cannot be good that knows not why he is good. -- I. Sidney p He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. p He cries wine and sells vinegar. -- Howell p He gets a double victory who conquers himself. p He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion p He has slept well that remembers not he has slept ill. -- Fuller p He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs. p He is a good orator who convinces himself. -- Mapletoft p He is at ease who has enough. p He is lifeless that is faultless. p He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. p He is now rising from affluence to poverty. -- Mark Twain p He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. -- Thomas Draxe p He is rich enough that wants nothing. p He is the best of men who dislikes power. -- Mohammed p He is the kind of man for the times that need the kind of man he is. p He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. p He is wise that knows when he is well enough. p He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- William Shakespeare p He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow. -- Richard Burton p He knows not what good is who has not tried what evil is. -- Torriano p He laughs best that laughs last. -- Sir J. Vanbrugh p He lives long that lives well. p He loses his thanks who promises and delays. -- Thomas Draxe p He loses indeed that loses at last. -- Fuller p He loses nothing who keeps God for his friend. -- Cotgrave p He or she who would gather roses must not fear thorns. -- Dutch proverb p He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. -- John Brown p He praises who wishes to sell. p He sits not sure that sits too high. -- Cotgrave p He spent his last shilling on a purse. p He teaches ill who teaches all. p He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open. -- Scottish proverb p He that brings good news knocks hard. -- Cotgrave p He that can have patience can have what he will. p He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. -- John Ray p He that cannot pay let him pray. -- John Ray p He that counts all costs will never put plow in the earth. -- Carmichaell p He that does what he will, does not what he ought. p He that eats least eats most. p He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals. -- Franklin p He that falls today may rise tomorrow. p He that fears you present will hate you absent. -- Fuller p He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. p He that has a full purse never wanted a friend. -- James Kelly p He that has a great nose, thinks everyone is speaking of it. p He that has lost his credit is dead to the world. p He that has money has what he wants. p He that has no money needs no purse. -- Thomas Draxe p He that has not silver in his purse, should have silk on his tongue. p He that has time has life. p He that hurts another hurts himself. -- Sanford p He that is born a fool is never cured. -- Harward p He that is carried down the stream need not row. -- Fuller p He that is fallen cannot help him that is down. -- George Herbert p He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. -- William Shakespeare p He that is his own counsel has a fool for a client. p He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing. p He that kills a man when he is drunk, shall be hanged when he is sober. p He that knows little soon repeats it. -- John Ray p He that knows nothing doubts nothing. -- Cotgrave p He that lends, gives. -- George Herbert p He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower. -- Alain de Lille p He that lives in hope dances without music. p He that lives long suffers much. p He that lives most, dies most. -- George Herbert p He that lives upon hope will die fasting. p He that lives well is learned enough. -- Cotgrave p He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly. -- Thomas Draxe p He that loves well sees afar off. -- George Herbert p He that makes a good war makes a good peace. p He that makes a thing too fine, breaks it. -- George Herbert p He that marries for wealth sells his liberty. p He that nothing questions, nothing learns. p He that pays last never pays twice. p He that plants a tree plants for posterity. p He that seeks finds. -- New Testament p He that seeks trouble, never misses. p He that sleeps with dogs must rise up with fleas. -- Seneca p He that sows good seed shall reap good corn. p He that speaks to a fool, talks to himself. -- James Kelly p He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill. -- Thomas Draxe p He that steals honey should beware of the sting. -- James Kelly p He that will be served, must be patient. -- George Herbert p He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut. p He that will enter into Paradise must have a good key. -- Thomas Draxe p He that will lie will steal. p He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. p He was meant for a gentleman, but was spoilt in the making. -- Jonathan Swift p He who angers you, conquers you. -- Elisabeth Kenny p He who asks is a fool for five minutes; he who does not remains a fool forever. p He who begins many things finishes but few. p He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. -- Bernard Shaw p He who dares knows adventure. p He who defines the terms wins the argument. -- Chinese proverb p He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. p He who dies with the most peace of mind wins. p He who dies with the most toys has missed the point of the game. p He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside. -- Sinbad p He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. -- Leng-Tzu p He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. p He who gives promptly gives twice. -- Miguel de Cervantes p He who goes into the conclave a pope comes out a cardinal. p He who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes. p He who has a WHY to live for can bear with almost any HOW. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. p He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing. p He who has the gold makes the rules. p He who hates vices hates mankind. p He who hesitates is lost. -- Leng-Tzu p He who hesitates is sometimes saved. -- James Thurber p He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. p He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. -- Lao Tsu p He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. -- Lao Tsu p He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. -- Lao Tsu p He who laughs, lasts. p He who lives without folly is less wise than he believes. p He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. p He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -- Victor Hugo p He who owes is in all wrong. -- Torriano p He who sees much can endure much. -- Emanuel Lasker p He who slings mud generally loses ground. -- Adlai Stevenson p He who tells you how great he is usually isn't. p He who thinks he is raising a mound might only in reality be digging a pit. p He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -- Escher p He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. -- Palmer p He's poor as Job, and not so patient. -- Byron p Health follows a change in mindset, just as in the case for placebos. -- Ellen Langer p Health is better than wealth. p Health is not valued till sickness comes. p Health: The capacity to completely accept with joy the fact that you are alive. p Hearts may agree, though heads differ. -- Fuller p Heaven does not worth according to human justice. -- Carolyn Myss p Heaven has no regard for physical comfort. -- Carolyn Myss p Heaven is a space where you can get whatever you want, and then it isn't enough. p Heaven is to be at peace with all things. -- George Santayana p Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -- Thoreau p Heaven takes care of children, sailors, and drunken men. p Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. p Hell is always open. -- Vergil p Hell is not a place you go, it's a way you live. Same with heaven. p Hell is wherever heaven is not. -- Delamothe p Help can come any which way -- anything is possible. -- Carolyn Myss p Henry Ford didn't make a penny until he was forty. p Her head looks as if it had worn out two bodies. -- Vermont saying p Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason. p Here it is standing: Atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. -- Richard Feynman p Here lies a good fellow who spent his life while he had it. -- Horatio Alger p Hey, everything goes wrong every minute. What you do is fix it. -- Gus Pagnois p Higher technology does not necessarily equate to higher anything else. -- Donovan p Hindsight is an exact science. p His bark is worse than his bite. p Historians are gossips who tease the dead. -- Voltaire p History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. p History develops, art stands still. -- E. M. Forster p History illuminates the actions of men, primatology those of women. p History is a spectator sport. p History is any succession of events seen with the effect of posteriority. -- Nassim Taleb p History is not a spectator sport. -- Robert Zubrin p History is written by the survivors. -- Max Lerner p History knows no resting places and no plateaus. -- Henry Kissinger p History may not repeat but sometimes it rhymes. -- Mark Twain p History usually clarifies stupidity. p History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill p Holding on to the past interferes with what the divine is doing in the present. p Home is home, though it be never so homely. -- James Kelly p Home is the nicest place you will ever go. p Home is the sailor, home from the sea... -- Kipling p Home is where I want to be, but I guess I'm already there. -- David Byrnes p Home is where the heart is. p Homo sapiens is the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. p Honest, smart, effective: Choose at most one. p Honesty is better than lying. p Honesty is the best policy. p Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. p Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland p Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. p Hope is a waking dream. p Hope is most powerful when backed up by action. p Hope is not a great investment strategy. -- John Waggoner p Hope is the poor man's bread. -- George Herbert p Hope keeps man alive. -- Withals p Hope springs eternal in the human mind. p Hot love is soon cold. -- Lyly p Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace. -- Solomon p Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong p How apt the poor are to be proud. p How are you going to shape the future if you don't know the past? -- Billie Jean King p How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. -- Spanish proverb p How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. p How can I know what I think until I see what I say? -- E. M. Forster p How can so many take The Amazing Journey and not be amazed? -- Steve Hug p How can you avoid hurting someone's feelings without being a liar? p How can you tell the dance from the dancer? p How complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. p How do we acquire wisdom along with all these shiny things? -- David Brin p How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time. -- Frederick Brooks p How happy we would be if we lost all we had -- and then regained it. -- Seneca p How high I am, how much I see, how far I reach, depends on me. p How long does it take to learn that violence begets violence? -- Marc Salkin p How much more money does a millionaire need? Just one more dollar. p How old would you feel if you didn't know how old you were? p How vast the realm is our current oblivion. p How you look depends on where you go. p Human beings are omnivores. We eat everything, and the box it came in. p Human beings live longer and better when they enjoy what they do. -- J. Asimov p Human birth is precious because of the degree of awareness of one's predicament. p Human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse. p Human rationality isn't a scientist, it's a lawyer. -- Jonah Lehrer p Humankind's greatest experiences still lie ahead of us. p Humans are captivated by stories, but largely oblivious to data. -- David Hultstrom p Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough. -- Alan Kay p Humans are motivated by what has been done for them lately. -- Daniel Koshland p Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalizing beings. p Humans can't think randomly. -- Allan Roth p Humans need simple answers for complex problems. -- Lawrence Hirsch p Humble hearts have humble desires. -- Cotgrave p Humility is a virtue when you have no other. -- Edward Abbey p Humility is not a state of mind conducive to the advancement of learning. p Humility to genius is as an extinguisher to a candle. -- Shenstone p Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. -- William Gilbert p Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. -- de Bono p Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. p Hunger is not caused by scarcity of food but scarcity of democracy. -- Lappe' p Hunger is the best sauce. -- Cicero p Hunger knows no friend. -- Daniel Defoe p Hurt people hurt people. -- Will Bowen p Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid. -- Robert Heinlein p Hypocrites are real atheists. -- Francis Bacon p I am a deeply religious non-believer. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. -- Albert Einstein p I am a man; nothing human is alien to me. p I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone? -- Edward Abbey p I am becoming more energy than matter. -- Carolyn Myss p I am convinced the desire to formulate truths is a virulent disease. -- James p I am cured of my illness; I am healed with my illness. -- James Carse p I am exactly where I am supposed to be. -- Carolyn Myss p I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. -- Aldo Leopold p I am looking for an honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic p I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. p I am not this thought. -- Ram Dass p I am the story I tell myself. -- Greg Wait p I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so. -- John Donne p I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton p I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace... -- Edward Abbey p I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. -- Oscar Wilde p I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. p I can give you an argument, but I can't give you an understanding. -- Samuel Johnson p I can't afford to waste my time making money. -- Jean Agassiz p I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. -- Joe Walsh p I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -- Hellman p I cannot be alone; it's not possible. -- Carolyn Myss p I cannot prove this statement is true. -- Bo Curry p I cannot tell you my truth until you stop telling me yours. -- God? p I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. -- John Taylor p I cried because I had no socks, until I met a man who had no shoes. p I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. -- Edward Abbey p I do not know myself and God forbid that I should. -- Johann von Goethe p I do not take drugs -- I am drugs. -- Salvador Dali p I don't gamble. There are other ways to win at life. -- Mike Moxcey p I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference. -- Jack Kerouac p I don't make much sense because the rest of the world doesn't either. p I don't make the rules, Gil, I only play the game. -- Cash McCall p I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path. p I don't see why any system of beliefs deserves respect simply because it exists. -- Cristina Rad p I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. p I don't think comedy is an escape from tragedy. They are both life. -- Nichols p I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. -- Marilyn Monroe p I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -- George Shaw p I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. -- Abraham Lincoln p I find great humor in the fact that we ever take ourselves seriously. -- Adams p I forgive and quite forget old faults. -- William Shakespeare p I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus Caesar p I have become me without my consent. p I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be. -- Edward Abbey p I have lost all and found myself. -- Clarke p I have met my hero, and he is me. -- George Sheehan p I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. -- Calvin Coolidge p I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain p I have never, ever seen God come through the front door. -- Carolyn Myss p I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. -- Albert Einstein p I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. -- John Cage p I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus p I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. -- Robert Frost p I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. -- Themistocles p I know what I know, but I will keep it to myself. -- Howell p I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. p I like being single. I am always there when I need me. -- Art Leo p I love treason but hate a traitor. p I might make you feel, but I can't make you think. -- Gerald Bostock p I never know how much of what I say is true. -- Bette Midler p I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein p I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying. -- Dolly Parton p I never wish for anyone's death, but read a few obituaries with a chuckle. -- Mark Zimmerer p I only know that I do not know, but that is something after all. p I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers p I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. -- Dumas p I put up my thumb... And it blotted out the planet Earth. -- Neil Armstrong p I realized something about perfection... It comes only with time. -- Collymore p I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner p I saw that, finally, my responsibility was to work on myself. -- Ram Dass p I say little but think the more. -- William Shakespeare p I seem to be a verb. -- Buckminster Fuller p I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. p I strive to be brief but I become obscure. -- Horace p I think time is a merciless thing. -- Tennessee Williams p I touch the future. I teach. -- Christa McAuliffe p I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. -- Thomas Jefferson p I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck p I try to avoid my own mental biases. I rub my own nose into my own mistakes. -- Charlie Munger p I understand why you are confused. You're thinking too much. -- Carole Wallach p I used to be disgusted, now I find I am just amused. -- Costello p I wanted to do it just as he did; so I began to learn. -- Cesar Chavez p I wasted time and now doth time waste me. -- William Shakespeare p I will do nothing for you that you will not do for your Self. -- God? p I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. -- Bob Seeger p I wish I were as certain about anything as some people are about everything. p I would consider it an honor to be fossilized. -- famous anthropologist p I would like to know what I was fencing in and what I was fencing out. -- Frost p I would rather be defeated with love in my heart than be victorious without it. p I would rather be the first man here than the second in Rome. -- Julius Caesar p I would sooner be notorious than unknown. p I [am] a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise. -- Vangelis p I'd much rather see lube oil running out of a bearing than metal particles. -- Jim Potterf p I'll meet you... on the dark side... of the moon... -- Pink Floyd p I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -- Frost p I'm always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -- Pablo Picasso p I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way! -- Sandberg p I'm running out of cheeks to turn. -- John Taylor p I've finally become what I had merely intended to seem. -- Ludwig von Humboldt p Idealism increases in direct proportion to your distance from the problem. p Ideals are like the stars; we never reach them, but chart our course by them. p Ideas: Funny little things that don't work unless you do. p Ideology (noun): An imaginary relationship to a real situation. p Idle hands are the devil's playground. p Idleness is leisure gone to seed. p Idleness is the holiday of fools. p If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far. -- Paul White p If a cat has nine lives, a lie has ninety-nine. -- Blackmore p If a document is over two pages long, few people will ever read it. -- Adams p If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise. -- William Blake p If a guy is over 25% jerk, he's in trouble. -- Lee Iacocca p If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. -- Thomas Wolfe p If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. p If a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful. -- Haskins p If a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up! -- Lehrer p If a plant grows in abundance, it is a plant of virtue. -- old Gypsy proverb p If a string has one end, then it has another end. -- Miksch p If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G. K. Chesterton p If an ad leaves off the price, it means if you knew it, you wouldn't pay it. p If an inch represents one AU, then a light year is one mile, within 1%. p If anything can go wrong, it will. -- Murphy p If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. -- Walt Whitman p If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. -- Confucius p If blame can be shifted, it will be. p If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian. p If either religion or science were infallible, it would incorporate the other. p If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. -- Mark Twain p If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough. -- Gordon Moore p If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. p If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire p If God exists only in the gaps, then God is diminished with each new discovery. p If God made us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliment. p If God wanted us to have a president, he would have sent us a candidate. p If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. -- Edward Abbey p If happiness is in your destiny, you need not be in a hurry. -- Chinese proverb p If he works for you, you work for him. -- Japanese proverb p If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell. -- Virgil p If I had finished this sentence. -- Hofstadter p If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Newton p If it can't bite you, it can't kiss you. p If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. p If it happens, it must be possible. p If it is to be, it is up to me. p If it still works for you, it's not obsolete. p If it works, don't fix it. -- Sam Rayburn p If it's not necessary to make a decision, it's necessary not to make a decision. p If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. p If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: For whose amusement? p If love is blind, it best agrees with night. -- William Shakespeare p If men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. p If money is a means to an end, then inflation is an end to the means. -- Seitler p If N=1, all bets are off. -- Chuck Forsberg p If no one measures up, check your yardstick. p If no one uses it, there is a reason. p If not controlled, work flows to the competent person until he is submerged. p If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later, to be found out. -- Oscar Wilde p If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. -- Albert Einstein p If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. -- John Russell p If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops. -- Kelvin Throop p If plugged into tribal thought forms, you're also plugged into tribal diseases. -- Carolyn Myss p If religion remains unchallenged, so are the social problems that come with it. -- Cristina Rad p If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. -- Lincoln p If someone truly loves you, they ask how to make you happy; they don't guess. p If stock market experts were so expert, they would buy stock, not sell advice. p If the bed could tell all it knows it would put many to the blush. -- Overbury p If the end does not justify the means -- what can? -- Edward Abbey p If the enemy is in range, so are you. p If the master dies and the disciple grieves, the lives of both have been wasted. p If the poor cannot always get meat, the rich cannot always digest it. p If the solution is too complex you haven't stated the problem right. -- Baskins p If the thought is not the thinker then the thinker can choose the thought. p If the universe is the answer, what is the question? -- Leon Lederman p If the Universe were fair, we would deserve all the pain that we suffer. p If there are epigrams, there must be meta-epigrams. p If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. -- Murphy p If there is no wind, row. -- Polish proverb p If there's something that's good for you, do it as much as you can. -- Thaut p If war is the answer, then it's a stupid question. p If we could love our enemies we would have none. -- Thomas McKeown p If we crave some cosmic purpose, let us find ourselves a worthy goal. -- Carl Sagan p If we don't practice failing, we can only safely fly on sunny days. -- Amelia Earhart p If we don't survive, we don't do anything else. -- John Sinclair p If we look for the good in others, we discover the best in ourselves. -- Walsh p If we stop trying to understand things, we'll all be sunk. -- Frank Oppenheimer p If what you're doing doesn't work, try something different. p If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness. -- Edward Abbey p If ye sow the wind, ye shall reap the whirlwind. -- Old Testament p If you accept yesterday and love today, you will not be afraid of tomorrow. p If you aim at nothing, you are bound to hit it. p If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it. p If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov p If you are at the poker table wondering who the patsy is, it's probably you. -- William Bernstein p If you are careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you. p If you are going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it. -- Richard Burton p If you are short of everything but the enemy, you're in a combat zone. p If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy. p If you are wise, you will keep quiet. -- Solomon p If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? p If you argue with a fool, chances are he's doing the same thing. p If you brutalize the world around you, you also brutalize yourself. -- Flanders p If you can afford to do the right thing, you cannot afford to do otherwise. p If you can distinguish between good and bad advice, you don't need advice. p If you can dream it, you can do it. -- Walt Disney p If you can't be right, at least be consistent. -- Allan Roth p If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it. p If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em. p If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. p If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. p If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference. p If you can't write it right, you can't think it right. p If you carry enough gear for every emergency, you'll eventually need to use it. p If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. -- Rush p If you continually give you will continually have. p If you detect a problem in communicating, it is your problem. p If you dig a pit, you will fall in it. -- Old Testament p If you do not change your direction, you might end up where you are headed. p If you do not go within, you go without. -- Conversations with God p If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. -- John Galsworthy p If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. p If you don't deal with anger, it will deal with you. -- Will Limon p If you don't get it, don't worry about it, it will come back bigger. p If you don't know the world, you can't take appropriate action in the world. -- Adam Conover p If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. -- Carroll p If you don't like a job, don't get good at it. -- Jon Cohen p If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. -- Shinseki p If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. -- Coleman Hawkins p If you don't read, you're not any better than people who can't read. -- Mark Twain p If you don't rebalance your portfolio periodically, the markets do it for you. p If you don't scale the mountain, you can't see the plain. -- Chinese proverb p If you don't strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring. -- Andrew Carnegie p If you don't take care of your body, where will you live? p If you don't understand my silence, you will never understand my words. -- Taylor p If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it will visit you. -- Thomas Friedman p If you dress like you know what you're doing, people will think you do. -- Duggan p If you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm. p If you explain a joke, it ceases to be funny. p If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish. -- Darrell Royal p If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't go anywhere. p If you find your foot in your mouth, floss with your shoelaces and move on. p If you flatter your friends, you set a trap for yourself. -- Solomon p If you get the feeling I don't love you, feel again. p If you give love, it has to be unconditional; there is no other kind. -- Coit p If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. p If you have more than three priorities, you don't have any. -- Jim Collins p If you have no enemies, it's a sign fortune has forgot you. p If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. -- Raymond p If you have to ask what jazz is, you will never know. -- Louis Armstrong p If you have to ask you will never know. p If you have to walk on thin ice... You might as well dance! p If you haven't got a sense of humor, you haven't got any sense at all. p If you haven't time to do it right now, how will you redo it right later? p If you itch for it, scratch for it. p If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it. p If you keep people awake long enough, you can make them believe anything. -- Chuck Dederich p If you knew what you were doing you would probably be bored. -- Fresco p If you know your best, it's easier to say no to the merely good. -- Neifert p If you lend money in close friendship, it is sure to close friendship. -- Murthy p If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old. -- Quarles p If you love life it will love you back. p If you make demands, you are trapped in others's actions. -- Will Limon p If you must fail, fail early. p If you must fly, fly well. -- George Herbert p If you must hate, hate gently. p If you must say something anonymously, it's probably not worth saying. p If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. p If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow p If you reach the endzone, act like you've been there before. -- Joe Paterno p If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. p If you see fraud and don't shout fraud, you are a fraud. -- Nassim Taleb p If you seem to know what you are doing, you will be given more to do. p If you share less, you will find you have less to share. -- Dave Mata p If you smile at someone, they might smile back. p If you steal for others you shall be hanged yourself. -- Torriano p If you struggle with money, you will struggle in life. -- Peter Dunn p If you suspect a person, don't employ him. p If you take care of the future, you take care of yourself. -- Oren Lyons p If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain p If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal. -- Paulo Coelho p If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok p If you think you are above other people, you might really be standing all alone. p If you think you have no faults, that makes one. p If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. -- Ram Dass p If you treat people right they will treat you right -- 90% of the time. p If you trim yourself to suit others, soon you will whittle yourself away. p If you try to please everyone, someone will be displeased. p If you wait long enough, all your neighbors will build your fence. p If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree. p If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. -- William James p If you want divine justice, die. -- Nick Seldon p If you want people to think you wise, just agree with them. p If you want something different, do something different. -- Chris Bouten p If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. -- Pietro Aretino p If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. p If you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln p If you want unconditional enthusiasm and love, get a dog. -- Clara Thompson p If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. p If you won't bring your power into the light you'll maneuver it in the darkness. p If you work on your mind with your mind, how can you avoid immense confusion? p If you would be at ease, all the world is not. -- George Herbert p If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. p If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some. -- Ben Franklin p If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask it of him again. -- Ray p If you wouldn't shoot your mother for it, it's not worth taxing. -- O'Rourke p If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. -- Trump p If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough. -- Johnny Cash p If you're happy, you're successful. p If you're in debt, you can't say no. -- Tom Hanks p If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. -- Luther p If you're not sitting at the table, you're on the menu. p If your bread is stale, make toast. p If your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you? p If your riches are yours, why can't you take them with you to the next world? p If youth but knew, if old age but could. -- Henri Estienne p Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. -- Haitian proverb p Ignorance is bliss. p Ignorance is easier to cure than arrogance. p Ignorance is the first guarantee of poverty and peonage. -- Pancho Villa p Ignorance is the mother of adventure. p Ignorance, like faith and love, often blinds men. -- Michael Uhrin p Ignore people who refuse to change their mind when the facts change. -- Morgan Housel p Ill agreement is better than good judgement. p Ill news comes often on the back of worse. p Illness is nothing more than yet another form of neutral experience. -- Carolyn Myss p Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Voltaire p Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein p Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier p Imagine there's no heaven... It's easy if you try. -- John Lennon p Imitation is the sincerest flattery. -- Colton p Immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Galbraith p Importance is one of the most important of our illusions. -- Herbert Salzer p Important if true. -- A.W. Kinglake (proposed warning label on churches) p Improvement requires change. But change is not necessarily improvement. p Impurity means thoughts which define oneself as separate. -- Ram Dass p In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion. p In a hierarchy every employee rises to his level of incompetence. -- Dr. Peter p In a leopard the spots are not observed. -- George Herbert p In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. -- Edward Abbey p In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. p In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell p In a world without sorrow, nightingales would burp. -- E. M. Cioran p In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. -- Proverbs p In America the typewriters sleep with the good plumbing. p In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. p In any human endeavor, work seeks the lowest hierarchical level. p In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. -- Edward Abbey p In calm waters, every ship has a good captain. -- Swedish proverb p In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Bacon p In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. -- Winston Churchill, on Montgomery p In every country the sun rises in the morning. -- George Herbert p In every fault there is folly. p In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries. -- Saul Bellow p In giving advice seek to help, not to please your friend. -- Solon p In God we trust; all others pay cash. p In her dealings with man Destiny never closes her accounts. -- Oscar Wilde p In high school, you teach subjects. In grade school, you teach children. p In investing, a sign you are doing the right thing is that it hurts. -- Allan Roth p In investing, moderation in all things is preferred to excess in any one thing. p In life, some people get "shipped and handled" more than others. -- Will Limon p In loosing time, a man gets no money. -- Thomas Draxe p In Los Angeles there are fewer people than there are automobiles. p In love's wars he who flies is conqueror. -- Torriano p In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial. -- Tronchin p In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. -- Oscar Wilde p In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. p In my end is my beginning. p In nature there are no rewards or punishments, only actions and consequences. p In order to be it you've got to give up knowing you know. -- Ram Dass p In order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. p In our lives, death is both more removed and with us constantly. -- Marc Salkin p In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. -- Degas p In science the difficulty is not the discovery, but realizing one has made it. p In sickness health is known. -- Torriano p In silence also there's a worth that brings no risk. -- Simonides of Ceos p In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing. -- Alan Kay p In the absence of that which is not, that which IS, is NOT. -- God? p In the beginner's mind are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind, few. p In the country of the blind, the one eye'd man is king. p In the deepest water is the best fishing. -- Thomas Draxe p In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed is king. p In the kingdom of blind men the one-eyed must be mad. p In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. p In the long run we're all dead. -- John Keynes p In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. -- Voltaire p In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein p In the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. -- Deepak Chopra p In the moment you pledge your highest love, you greet your greatest fear. -- God? p In time of peace, prepare for war. p In time, the mask becomes the face. p In too much dispute truth is lost. p In trying times, keep trying. p In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth.) -- Pliny p In war it is not permitted twice to err. p In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant p In Washington (DC), the urgent overwhelms the important. -- Tony Snow p In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. -- Edward Abbey p Income almost always summons expenses. -- Peter Dunn p Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place. p Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. p Individuals often forget and forgive, but societies never do. -- Averbury p Individuals resist factual information that threatens their defining values. -- Dan Kahan p Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. p Infinite speech has the form of listening. -- James Carse p Infinite speech is not ABOUT anything; it is always TO someone. -- James Carse p Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. p Information in the present can change the past. -- Scott Adams p Information is the inverse of entropy. p Information that is hard to access is worth less than none at all. p Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Martin King Jr p Innocence is no protection. -- Jonson p Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra p Insanity is expecting different results from repeating the same behavior. p Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. -- Hoare p Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. -- Howe p Instead of panicking, detach like Buddha. -- Carolyn Myss p Institutions are devoid of humanity; they are established for productivity. p Insulting those who don't already hold your point of view isn't persuasive. -- Bob Moore p Integrity costs so very little. p Integrity has no need of rules. -- Albert Camus p Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. -- Ralph Emerson p Intellectual assets, unlike physical assets, increase in value with use. p Intellectual objectivity is often seduced by semantic skullduggery. -- Hirsch p Intelligence is more often than not misused. p Intelligence is the art of good guessing. -- Horace Barlow p Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing. -- Gloria Steinem p Intelligent people think before they speak. -- Solomon p Intention is not action. p Internal consistency is valued more than efficient service. p Internalized oppression is the part of us that believes we're less than perfect. p Intimacy comes from the resolution of conflict, not the lack of it. -- Will Limon p Intimacy is the exchange of vulnerabilities. -- Masters and Johnson p Intimacy: Two trees growing close together, but not in each other's shadow. p Into every life a bit of rain must fall. p Intolerance is a state no tolerant man can tolerate. -- McGinley p Intolerance is the last defense of the insecure. p Intuitive insight is not a gift, it is a skill. -- Carolyn Myss p Invest in the past. It will always be with you. p Investing is simple, but not easy. -- Warren Buffett p Investing is simple, but taxes aren't. -- Allan Roth p Investing is taking a risk only when you expect a positive return. -- Allan Roth p Investing isn't a game, and doing it right really isn't any fun. -- Allan Roth p Investing should oscillate between boring and painful. -- Allan Roth p Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. -- Warren Buffett p Irritation is one of the great gifts we give each other. -- Lee Coit p Is a mirage real? Well, it's a real mirage. -- Edward Abbey p Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? -- Richard Feynman p Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? -- Voltaire p Is this true or only clever? -- Augustine Birrell p Isn't fun the best thing to have? p It ain't creative if it don't sell. p It ain't over till it's over. -- Yogi Berra p It costs more to do ill than to do well. -- George Herbert p It doesn't matter who you marry; next morning you will find it was someone else. p It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. -- Arthur Clarke p It is a fundamental law of nature that nothing ever quite works out. p It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly. p It is a great victory that comes without blood. p It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein p It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize. p It is a poor workman who blames his tools. p It is a principle function of society to validate titles. -- James Carse p It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured. -- Tacitus p It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. -- Aeschylus p It is a rare problem that can't be solved by fewer people or less government. p It is a short way from the penthouse to the outhouse. -- (coach) Dan Reeves p It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. p It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. p It is a wise father that knows his own child. p It is all a game; play it to have fun. -- Price p It is always best to do a thing wrong the first time. -- Osler p It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. -- Oscar Wilde p It is amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. -- Robert Heinlein p It is amazing how much one person can do, little by little, over time. p It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity... -- Voltaire p It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. -- Ovid p It is as cheap sitting as standing. -- Torriano p It is as good to be in the dark as without light. -- John Ray p It is as natural to die as to be born. p It is bad not to do any research, but badly done research is even worse. p It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. p It is better never to begin than never to make an end. -- Alexander Barclay p It is better to be a beggar than a fool. -- Torriano p It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life. p It is better to be a martyr than a confessor. -- Sanford p It is better to be alone than in bad company. p It is better to be deceived by a friend than to suspect him. p It is better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love. p It is better to be happy than wise. -- W. Alley p It is better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all. -- Marty Winch p It is better to be wise than smart. p It is better to beg than to steal. p It is better to buy than borrow. -- Taverner p It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. p It is better to die with honor than live with shame. p It is better to divorce than to murder. p It is better to eat than to be eaten. p It is better to give than receive. p It is better to go by your enemy's grave than his gate. -- Robinson p It is better to go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. -- Fuller p It is better to have men ask why you have no statue than why you have one. p It is better to have than to hear of a good thing. -- John Ray p It is better to keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house. p It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. -- Josh Billings p It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -- Thurber p It is better to know, than not to know. -- Paul Harvey p It is better to live rich than to die rich. p It is better to pass a danger once than be always in fear. -- Julius Caesar p It is better to say, "here it is" than, "here it was." -- James Carmichaell p It is better to speak truth rudely than lie covertly. -- George Herbert p It is better to suffer ill than do ill. p It is better to travel in hope than arrive in despair. -- Tom Magliozzi p It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland p It is better to win control over yourself than over whole cities. -- Solomon p It is dangerous to be a farsighted midget in a land of nearsighted giants. p It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire p It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. -- George Shaw p It is difficult to be depressed while you are doing something. p It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame. p It is easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future. p It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself. -- La Rochefoucald p It is easier to do good than be good. p It is easier to fight for principles than live up to them. -- Alfred Adler p It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. -- Stewart p It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it. p It is easier to pull down than to build up. p It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -- Leonardo da Vinci p It is easier to run down a hill than up one. p It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -- Aesop p It is evil to act as though the past is bringing us to a specifiable end. p It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. -- George Will p It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. -- G. Delamothe p It is good to marry late or never. -- Thomas Draxe p It is hard having a hierarchical mind in a serial world. -- Alan Silverstein p It is hard to be graceful getting off a high horse. p It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. -- Sally Kempton p It is hard to write even a bad book. p It is impolite to silence a fool and cruel to let him go on. p It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. -- Epictetus p It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised. p It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. p It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. p It is in surrendering that the victory is won. -- Conversations with God p It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts. -- Thomas Jefferson p It is just as easy to make a dollar today as it will be next year. -- Packard p It is least productive to make more efficient what need not be done at all. p It is lost that is unsought. -- John Heywood p It is misery enough to have once been happy. p It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it. -- Seneca p It is more important to get in the first thought than the last word. p It is more pain to do nothing than something. -- George Herbert p It is much better to become the saint, rather than to go and have his visit. p It is much easier and much faster to destroy than to build. -- Nassim Taleb p It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli p It is much easier to change what you are doing than what another is doing. p It is much harder to find a job than to keep one. -- Jules Becker p It is necessary to think even to decide which facts to collect. -- Hutchins p It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot p It is never too late to have a happy childhood. p It is never too late to learn. p It is no good trying to teach people who need to be taught. -- Aleister Crowley p It is not a bad little planet, if you know the right people. p It is not easy to play the clown when you have to run the whole circus. p It is not enlightened to shrink so others won't feel insecure around you. p It is not enough to be a market-focused company. You must be customer-centered. p It is not enough to be a strong player, one must also play well. -- Tarrasch p It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal p It is not every question that deserves an answer. -- Publilius Syrus p It is not granted to man to love and to be wise. -- Francis Bacon p It is not honest to be tactful. -- Robert Taft p It is not how long but how well we live. p It is not necessary to appreciate fine wine to drink it. -- Henry Gay p It is not possible to step in the same river twice. -- Heraclitus p It is not reality that is important, but how you perceive things. p It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. -- E. Gayton p It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. p It is not the perfect but the imperfect who have need of love. -- Oscar Wilde p It is not the size of the army, it's the frenzy of the attack. p It is not who you know, it's what you are. -- John Taylor p It is not wise to show one's heart to the world. -- Oscar Wilde p It is not work that kills, but worry. p It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. -- Cervantes p It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. p It is personalities, not principles, that move the age. -- Oscar Wilde p It is possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. p It is simple to make things complex, but complex to make them simple. p It is simultaneously true that masks work and mask mandates do not work. -- Dr. Shira Doron p It is sin to think evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -- H. L. Mencken p It is smart to pick your friends -- but not to pieces. p It is so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. -- Liv Ullman p It is so very difficult for a sick man not to be a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson p It is sometimes necessary to belabor the obvious. -- Lawrence Hirsch p It is stupid to get drunk. -- Solomon p It is the business of little minds to shrink. -- Carl Sandburg p It is the business of scientists to explain away the magic in the world. p It is the business of the future to be dangerous. -- Hawkwind p It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. -- Oscar Wilde p It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. p It is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again... -- God? p It is the sick oyster which possesses the pearl. -- J. A. Shedd p It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. -- Oscar Wilde p It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree. p It is to no purpose to counsel him who is lucky. -- Torriano p It is tragic when a man outlives his body. -- Sigmund Freud p It is unwise to be too sure on one's wisdom. -- Mohandas Gandhi p It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. -- Horace p It isn't the whistle that moves the train. p It may not be true but it is well contrived. -- Giordano Bruno p It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. p It pleases me as much to doubt as to know. -- Dante p It takes a certain brilliance to keep a simple idea simple. -- Allan Roth p It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. -- Erma Bombeck p It takes all sorts to make a world. -- Thomas Shelton p It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. p It takes two to make a quarrel. p It was a dream of perfect bliss, too beautiful to last. -- T. H. Bayly p It was fear that first made gods in the world. -- Statius p It was only in my forties that I started to feel young. -- Henry Miller p It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down. -- Neil Young p It's a terrific burden being right and competent all the time. -- Lee Coit p It's a total freedom when the other person says: Do what you want to do. -- Coit p It's all in your mind, you know... p It's all right to be Goliath, but always act like David. -- Phil Knight p It's better that we disagree than be in agreement and all be wrong. -- Kahn p It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled. -- Mark Twain p It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right. p It's easy to sit up and take notice, but hard to get up and take action. p It's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. -- Henry Tyroon p It's hard to be reasonable with someone who isn't. p It's kind of silly and fun... But I think silly fun things are important. -- Elon Musk p It's not a question of who's right and who's wrong, but of what do we do now? -- Oren Lyons p It's not bragging if you can back it up. -- Muhammed Ali p It's not difference that creates problems; it's dominance that creates problems. p It's not how old you are, but how you are old. p It's the job of the press to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. p It's the little things that count, especially when nobody is looking. p It's the money you don't spend that gives you the freedom to build wealth. p It's the thought that counts. -- Confucius p It's time to take on self-creation and move away from the tribal. -- Carolyn Myss p It's tough to bargain with someone who has nothing to lose. p It's very hard to define entropy for the entire universe. -- Lawrence Shulman p It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him. p It's what you do after you're born that counts. -- John Taylor p It's your love that defines you, not who loves you. p Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak. -- Edward Abbey p Jesus was killed by a Moral Majority. p Job descriptions are hideously cumulative. -- Scott Adams p Judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -- Joseph Conrad p Judge not, and neither condemn, for you know not why a thing occurs... -- God? p Judge people by what they are, not where they are. p Judging is like telling God that the divine doesn't know what it's doing. -- Carolyn Myss p Jumping to conclusions is a dangerous exercise. p Just about anything worth learning is worth learning the hard way. -- Seth Godin p Just because you arrive does not mean your map is correct. p Justice delayed is justice denied. -- old French proverb p Justice is incidental to law and order. -- J. Edgar Hoover p Keep a diary, and some day it'll keep you. -- Mae West p Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. -- Kallis p Keep the promises you've made to yourself. -- Paul Sassenrath p Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. p Keep your laws off my body! p Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. -- Schmich p Key aspects of advertising: Attention, interest, motivation. p Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man. -- Ayn Rand p Kind hearts are soonest wronged. -- Breton p Kindness comes of will. p Kindness is like a boomerang: It always comes back. p Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. p Kissing a smoker is like licking an ash tray. p Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. -- Winston Churchill p Know yourself thoroughly and compromise carefully. -- Will Limon p Knowing through intellect is merely another power. -- Ram Dass p Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -- Tennyson p Knowledge is better than ignorance. p Knowledge is knowing that you do not know. p Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon p Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. -- George Herbert p Knowledge need never be justified by utility. p Knowledge steepens our soul's angle of repose. -- John Taylor p Knowledge without common sense is folly. p Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. p Lack of capability is usually disguised by lack of interest. -- Alan Silverstein p Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Shaw p Language is the most powerful tool ever invented anywhere by anyone. -- Asimov p Large standard deviations indicate failure to account for hidden effects. p Laugh when you can; cry when you must. p Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge p Law is the process by which the unmanifest becomes the manifest. -- Deepak Chopra p Law makers should not be law breakers. p Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Cicero p Law, without force, is impotent. -- Pascal p Laws are made to protect citizens, not please them. -- Judge Dredd p Laws are spider webs through which big flies pass and little ones get caught. p Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. -- Goldsmith p Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live. -- Solomon p Leaders have a bias for action. -- Jack Canfield p Learn from other people's mistakes; you don't have time to make your own. p Learn how to say no without feeling the need to explain why. p Learn to be flexible; it makes the curves in your life much easier to maneuver. p Learn to be intense without being tense. Pressure is not tension. -- Joe Torre p Learn to disagree without being disagreeable. -- Peter Chantilis p Learn to evaluate how much energy you have invested in your perceptions. -- Carolyn Myss p Learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness. p Learn to pause, or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you. p Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. p Learning is not compulsory... Neither is survival. -- W. Edwards Deming p Learning is the eye of the mind. -- Thomas Draxe p Learning is the product of self-organization. p Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. p Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. p Leave no stone unturned. -- Euripides p Lend and lose; so play fools. -- John Ray p Lend money to a bad debtor and she will hate you. p Less is more. -- Robert Browning p Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. -- Joseph Conrad p Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -- Publilius Syrus p Let all your conclusions be tentative. p Let everything you own be either beautiful or useful. p Let go of things that don't serve you. -- Marianne Neifert p Let him that would move the world first move himself. -- Socrates p Let life be short; else shame will be too long. p Let nature take her own course. -- Torriano p Let not your sun go down on your wrath. -- St. Paul p Let other people praise you, even strangers; never do it yourself. -- Solomon p Let patience grow in your garden always. p Let reason rule all your actions. -- Thomas Draxe p Let sleeping dogs lie. -- Leng-Tzu p Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. -- Dionysius the Elder p Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies and the cool, green hills of Earth. p Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. -- Hebrews 12:1 p Let what comes, come. Let what goes, go. What remains is true. p Let your words be the very picture of your heart. -- John Wesley p Let's make the facts louder than the opinion. -- Kait Parker p Leveraging always beats prototyping. p Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. p Liars begin by imposing upon others, but end by deceiving themselves. p Liars have need of good memories. p Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. -- Will Rogers p Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. -- Fosdick p Liberty is not for the faint of heart. -- Mark Laslo p Life attracts life. -- Paulo Coelho p Life can hardly survive truly interesting times. -- Philip Morrison p Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. -- Soren Kierkegaard p Life consists of many little things, but to do them well is a big thing. p Life consists of what a man is thinking of all day. -- Emerson p Life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. p Life defies one line characterization. -- Eugene Miya p Life imitates art -- but badly. -- Edward Abbey p Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde p Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. -- Lou Holz p Life is a brief interlude between nothingness and eternity. p Life is a business which does not cover its expenses. -- Schopenhauer p Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels. -- Walpole p Life is a game in which what is not, is more important than what is. -- Erhard p Life is a handicap event, and a winner may finish deep in the pack. -- Sheehan p Life is a meaningless comma in the sentence of time. -- Garrat & Kidd p Life is a series of collisions with the future. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset p Life is a situation comedy that will never be canceled. -- Steve Bhaerman p Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. p Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. p Life is cruel? Compared to what? -- Edward Abbey p Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. -- Helen Keller p Life is for the living. p Life is half spent before we know what it is. p Life is information that replicates. -- Christoph Adami p Life is just an appetizer. p Life is just one damned thing after another. -- Frank O'Malley p Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time. -- Scott Adams p Life is like a room full of open doors that close as you get older. p Life is like an onion: You peel off layer after layer, and find nothing in it. p Life is like photography, you use the negative to develop. -- Steve Bhaerman p Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. p Life is not a dress rehearsal. p Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. p Life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. -- God? p Life is not a spectator sport. p Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. -- Nash p Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. p Life is one long process of tiring. -- Samuel Butler p Life is one long struggle in the dark. -- Titus Carus p Life is really generous to those who pursue their destiny. -- Paulo Coelho p Life is short, but it is long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. p Life is short; don't waste too much time rearranging the atoms. -- Alan Silverstein p Life is shot at us point-blank. -- Ortega y Gasset p Life is stranger than fiction; love is stronger than friction. p Life is sweet. p Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann von Goethe p Life is the cumulative effect of a handful of significant shocks. -- Nassim Taleb p Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third. p Life is the greatest bargain: We get it for nothing. -- H. Ayalti p Life is the living you do; death is the living you don't do. -- Joseph Pintauro p Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. p Life is the process of making and distributing free lunches. -- Tom von Alten p Life is the urge to ecstasy. p Life is too important to take seriously. -- Corky Siegel p Life is too short to be little. -- Disraeli p Life is too short to eat boring food. p Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice. -- Edward Abbey p Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. -- John Wayne p Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair. -- Edward Abbey p Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. -- Thomas La Mance p Life is what you do while you are waiting to die. -- Nikos Kazantzakis p Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- Shaw p Life lies not in living, but in liking. p Life meets no one halfway. p Life need not be a zero-sum game. p Life runs on current sunlight; we run on ancient photosynthesis (fossil fuels). -- Janine Benyus p Life script: Spells cast upon you in childhood. p Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anais Nin p Life uses local resources. -- Janine Benyus p Life without a friend, is death without a witness. -- George Herbert p Life wouldn't be so hard if we didn't expect it to be so easy. p Life your life so that if someone says, "Be yourself," it's good advice. -- Orben p Life's difficulties are intended to make us better, not bitter. p Life's key elements: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus. p Lifeless bees do not gather honey. -- English proverb p Light winnings make heavy purses. p Lighten up, while you still can, don't even try to understand... p Lightly come, lightly go. p Like a river, money must keep flowing; otherwise it begins to stagnate. -- Deepak Chopra p Like any kind of gear, backpacking gear suffers from diminishing returns. -- Mann p Like father, like son. p Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. p Listeners never hear good of themselves. p Little and often fills the purse. p Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken. -- Barclay p Little things console us because little things afflict us. -- Blaise Pascal p Little things please little minds. p Live and let live. p Live each day as if it were your last. -- Leng-Tzu p Live now: There's plenty of time to be dead later. -- John Taylor p Live with grace. p Live your life as if it matters to Life, and it will. -- Kevin Cook p Live your live such that you need not hide your diary. p Living means dying. -- Engels p Loan someone a sympathetic ear. p Logic doesn't apply to the real world. -- Marvin Minsky p Logic is in the eye of the logician. -- Gloria Steinem p Logical systems are at the mercy of their postulates. p Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. p Loneliness is God's waiting room. -- Walter Landor p Loneliness is the pain of being alone; solitude is the joy of being alone. p Lonely is a man without love. p Long before you learn about forgiveness, you learn about tribal justice. -- Carolyn Myss p Long life has long misery. p Look afar and see the end from the beginning. p Look after the molehills and the mountains will take care of themselves. p Look at everything through a tribal perspective. -- Carolyn Myss p Look before you leap. -- Confucius p Look for a life partner who is soul food, not eye candy. -- Karen Salmansohn p Look not on pleasures as they come but as they go. -- George Herbert p Looking breeds liking. -- Ravenscroft p Losing makes winning worthwhile. -- Reyer p Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard p Lovability starts with loving yourself. -- Will Limon p Love (the feeling) is the fruit of love (the verb). -- Stephen Covey p Love and gluttony justify everything. -- Oscar Wilde p Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. p Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. -- George Herbert p Love comes by looking. p Love comes from trust, trust comes from experience, and it must be earned. p Love comes in at the window and goes out at the door. -- Gruter p Love covers a multitude of faults. -- Torriano p Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God. -- Ram Dass p Love goes toward love. -- William Shakespeare p Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. p Love is a hole in the heart. p Love is a human religion in which another is believed in. -- Robert Seidenberg p Love is a much stronger drug than LSD. -- Ram Dass p Love is a product of habit. p Love is a sweet torment. p Love is a verb. -- Will Limon p Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing... -- Johann von Goethe p Love is blind. p Love is divine power. -- Carolyn Myss p Love is free. p Love is friendship set on fire. p Love is full of fear. -- William Shakespeare p Love is giving more and never keeping score. p Love is lawless. p Love is measured not in moments of time, but in timeless moments. -- Bartocei p Love is not something you have; it is something you do. -- Will Limon p Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending. -- William Shakespeare p Love is the force that makes us fully human. -- David Suzuki p Love is the greatest gift you can receive. But you must give it to yourself. p Love is unconditional caring for an imperfect being. -- Scott Peck p Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. p Love makes a wit of the fool. p Love makes all hard hearts gentle. p Love makes one fit for any work. -- George Herbert p Love makes the world go round. p Love means adapting yourself to another person's needs. -- Rekha p Love means never having to say you're sorry. -- Love Story p Love means telling you why you're sorry. p Love needs no teaching. -- Raleigh (wrong!) p Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. -- Anne de Lenclos p Love relationships are the highest risk investments you will ever make. -- Will Limon p Love should make marriage, and not marriage love. -- William Shakespeare p Love springs from elements we have within our grasp. -- Will Limon p Love the future, for you are going to spend the rest of your life there. p Love truth, pardon error. -- Voltaire p Love will find a way. p Love will not overcome a lack of parity. -- Will Limon p Love your friend with his fault. p Love your friend, but look to yourself. -- James Kelly p Love your neighbor, yet don't pull down your hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin p Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet. -- Trudeau p Luck: Careful planning, well executed. p Lucky in life, unlucky in love. -- E. Phillpotts p Lying is a way of taking personal responsibility for reality. -- G. Keillor p Machinery... always requires a search for consumable power. -- James Carse p Machines should work; people should think. p Madness takes its toll. p Magisterial speech is amplified speech; it is speech that silences. -- James Carse p Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. p Majorities, of course, start with minorities. -- Robert Moses p Make a living, but make room for life. p Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as for your own. p Make choices and decisions, not judgements and demands. -- Will Limon p Make haste slowly. -- Benjamin Franklin p Make hay while the sun shines. p Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won't be able to get out. p Make much of what you have. -- Withals p Make not the door wider than the house. p Make not two sorrows of one. p Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. p Making rules is easy, but living by them is virtually impossible. p Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity. -- Hofstadter p Maktub. (It is written.) p Man and wife make one fool. p Man belongs wherever he wants to go. -- Wernher von Braun p Man can believe the impossible, but never the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde p Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. p Man does not live by words alone, despite that sometimes he must eat them. p Man does what he can, and God what he will. -- Thomas Draxe p Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley p Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. -- Holbrook Jackson p Man is a military animal; glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. -- Bailey p Man is a sort of tree that we are too apt to judge by the bark. p Man is a wolf to man. -- Plautus p Man is an obligate aerobe. p Man is born to live, and not to prepare to live. -- Boris Pasternak p Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle p Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. p Man is not a lovable animal. -- Edward Abbey p Man is not disturbed about things, but by his opinion about things. -- Epictetus p Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors. -- ibn Khaldun p Man is the highest animal because man does the classifying. p Man is the measure of all things. -- Protagoras p Man must decide... What will be the monument of his existence. -- Frankl p Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. -- Arthur Miller p Man proposes, God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempis p Man punishes the action, but God the intention. -- Fuller p Man shall not live by bread alone. -- New Testament p Man weeps to think that he will die soon; a woman that she was born so long ago. p Man's extremity is God's opportunity. p Man's horizons are bounded by his vision. p Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens? -- Robert Browning p Man's vehicle is finite and he's trying to know something about the infinite. p Managers can either influence or control, but not both. p Manners make the man. p Many a man would have been worse if his estate had been better. -- Franklin p Many are called; few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. p Many are called; few volunteer. p Many drops make a flood. p Many give advice; few give help. -- Herbert Salzer p Many hands make light work. -- John Heywood p Many lords, many laws. -- Thomas Draxe p Many men counsel others better than themselves. -- J. Hewes p Many pages make a thick book. p Many receive advice, few profit by it. -- Publilius Syrus p Many small make a great. p Many speak much who cannot speak well. p Many things can be done in a day if you don't make that day tomorrow. p Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. p Many things happen unlooked for. p Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. -- Thomas Fuller p Many young scientists work too much and read and think too little. -- Max Perutz p Marriage is a covenant between two people notarized by God. -- Bill Miles p Marry in haste: Repent in leisure. p Mater artium necessitas. (Necessity is the mother of invention.) p Mathematics and death are never in error. -- Yvgeney Zamyatin p Mathematics is the language God used to write the universe. p Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature. p Maturity is knowing you are right without needing to prove it. p Maximize the serendipity around you. -- Nassim Taleb p May the road rise up to greet you, and the wind always be at your back. -- Irish p May you always have the strength to enjoy your weaknesses. -- Laura Watson p May you live all the days of your life. p May you live in interesting times. -- Chinese curse p Maybe I was a little bit too optimistic. Success can't be predicted. -- Drake p Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. -- Charles Dawes p Memory is the medium of the must-have-been. -- Julian Jaynes p Memory is the mother of all wisdom. -- Aeschylus p Memory should be the starting point of the present. p Men always learn from their mistakes how to make new ones. -- A.J.P. Taylor p Men and nations act rationally when all other possibilities are exhausted. p Men are but children of a larger growth. -- Dryden p Men are more concerned to use ideas than to understand them. -- J. H. Randall p Men are only fellow voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. p Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses; women for their strengths. p Men behave wisely once they have exhausted all alternatives. -- Abba Eban p Men dream more about coming home than about leaving. -- Paulo Coelho p Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. -- Julius Caesar p Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry Thoreau p Men love to hear well of themselves. -- Clarke p Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. p Men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor p Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last. p Men take only their needs into consideration; never their abilities. -- Napoleon p Men will believe more easily that which they do not understand. -- de Montaigne p Men work hard, but women work miracles. -- Ricky Gervais p Mercy to the criminal might be cruelty to the people. p Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things. -- Edward Abbey p Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium. -- T.S. Eliot p Might makes right. p Mind manifests in matter. -- Ram Dass p Mind other men, but most yourself. -- Clarke p Minds are like parachutes; they only function when fully open. -- James Dewar p Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. p Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. p Misfortunes never come alone. p Misplaced precision stifles initiative. p Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure. p Mistakes are the ornament of freedom. p Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the chess player. -- Tarrasch p Moderates give a power base to extremists. -- Richard Dawkins p Moderation in all things. -- Publius Afer p Money alone sets the world in motion. -- Publius p Money answers all things. -- Old Testament p Money can buy friendship but money cannot buy love. p Money drives politics, often over cliffs. -- Jack Schmidt p Money has no memory. -- John Taylor p Money is a good servant but a bad master. -- Francis Bacon p Money is like a promise, easier made than kept. p Money is like an arm or a leg: Use it or lose it. -- Henry Ford p Money is often lost for want of money. -- Thomas Draxe p Money is tender when you have it, and tough when you haven't. p Money isn't everything; sometimes it isn't even enough. p Money makes a man free everywhere. p Money makes money. -- Trafford p Money makes the man. p Money never goes out of season. p Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up. -- Kin Hubbard p Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. p Moral principles can never be compromised; they can only be abandoned. p Morality is a private and costly luxury. -- Henry Adams p Morality is an illusion; only ethics is real. p Morality is simply the attitude we adopt to people whom we personally dislike. p Morality is the root, as well as consequence, of survival. -- Lawrence Hirsch p Morals gain greater clarity when the questionable action is done to you. p More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. p More happiness, less stuff: Shouldn't that be our whole society's objective? -- Ray Anderson p More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. -- R. S. Surtees p More people would learn from their mistakes if not so busy denying them. -- Harold Smith p Most of society's arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance. -- Tim Minchin p Most of the desires we have do not need physical bodies to be satisfied. -- Dass p Most people are unenthusiastic about their work. p Most people change because they are forced to. -- Will Limon p Most people deserve each other. -- Shirley p Most people die at 25 but aren't buried until they're 75. -- Benjamin Franklin p Most people prefer certainty to truth. p Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. -- Zappa p Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca p Most religious teachers (try) to prove the unproven by the unprovable. -- Oscar Wilde p Most suicides are committed with a knife... fork, and spoon. p Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. p Mountaineers are almost always right when they "go with their gut." -- Sturgis p Mountains are good for us. They get us to increase our effort. -- Paul Nesbit p Much law, but little justice. -- Fuller p Much learning makes men mad. -- Ariosto p Much of what we call knowledge is merely a temporary frame around chaos. p Much tells me little; little tells me much. -- John Taylor p Mud thrown is ground lost. p Muddy water let stand becomes clear. -- Lao Tse p Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. -- Edward Abbey p Music endures and ages far better than books. -- Edward Abbey p Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. -- Lao Tsu p Music is the eye of the ear. -- Thomas Draxe p Must I hold a candle to my shames? -- William Shakespeare p Mutual respect is the key to avoiding conflict. -- Peter Chantilis p My body takes commands from my soul. -- Carolyn Myss p My boys, let us be grave: Here comes a fool. -- Dr. Clarke, of Beau Nash p My cup runneth over with love. p My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. p My job is an interesting hobby. I take everything else seriously. -- Steve Hug p My job is just to work on myself, and if anything happens, it happens. -- Dass p My life is an extraordinary series of mistakes. -- Anthony Hopkins p My old information was held hostage by the tool I used to create it. -- Goldfarb p My only concern is to set man absolutely, unconditionally free. -- Krishnamurti p My purpose for you is that you should know yourself as me. -- God? p Myth is the highest form of our listening to each other. -- James Carse p Myths are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings. p Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. -- Baroness Edith Summerskill p Names and natures do often agree. p Narcissists don't learn from mistakes because they don't think they make any. p Narrow gathered, widely spent. p Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind. -- Albert Einstein p Nature abhors a vacuum. p Nature always has more imagination than we have. -- Freeman Dyson p Nature bats last. The laws of physics are equal-opportunity. p Nature is content with a little. p Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful. -- Edward Abbey p Nature is not benign. Natural laws have no pity. -- Robert Heinlein p Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information. -- Shannon p Nature tries everything at least once. -- Arthur Clarke p Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. -- Mapletoft p Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon p Necessity has no holiday. p Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. -- William Pitt p Needs are a function of what other people have. p Negative people have a problem for every solution. p Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan often loses both itself and friend. p Neither in hope nor in fear. -- motto of Isabella d'Este p Neither spread the germs of gossip nor encourage others to do so. p Neurons that fire together, wire together. -- Donald Hebb p Neutrality is at times a greater sin than belligerence. -- Justice Brandeis p Never answer a question until it is asked. p Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one. -- Robert Heinlein p Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. p Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. -- Greener p Never assume villany when mere incompetence suffices. p Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. p Never be foolish enough to consider yourself infallible. p Never before have so many people known so little about so much. -- James Burke p Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear. -- Oscar Wilde p Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. p Never change a winning theme. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you." -- Leroy King p Never debate; escalate. -- Carl Trautman p Never delegate making yourself happy. p Never give up, for that is just the time that the tide will turn. -- Stowe p Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. p Never ignore friction. p Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river. p Never interrupt when you are being flattered. -- H. Jackson Brown p Never laugh at your own jokes. p Never let a major crisis go to waste. -- Rahm Emanuel p Never let them take a picture of you holding a martini. p Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. -- Asimov p Never let yourself think that you are wiser than you are. -- Solomon p Never lose a holy curiosity. -- Albert Einstein p Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it. -- Erich Remarque p Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. p Never miss a check, it might be mate. p Never move a pawn and you will never lose a game. -- Siegbert Tarrasch p Never outrun that which you can outsmart. p Never pay a compliment as though you expected a receipt. p Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus p Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today. p Never rely on what you think you know. -- Solomon p Never risk what you can't afford to lose. -- H. Jackson Brown p Never say never. p Never speak more clearly than you think. -- Neils Bohr p Never swap your integrity for money, power, or fame. -- H. Jackson Brown p Never take a drink when you are feeling sorry for yourself. p Never take what you cannot use. -- H. Jackson Brown p Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch. -- Aesop p Never trust anyone who can't say: "I don't know." -- Greg Goebel p Never trust anyone who says money is no object. p Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. -- Aesop p Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. p Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. p Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity. -- Neil Simon p Never volunteer for anything. -- Lackland p Never waste time explaining yourself to someone committed to misunderstanding. -- Ethan Siegel p Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. p New systems generate new problems. p Newspapers often print the first draft of history. p Night is the mother of counsel. p Nihilism is the only philosophy that denies its own existence. p Nine men in ten are suicides. -- Benjamin Franklin p Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. p No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop p No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail. p No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. p No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -- William Blake p No bucks, no Buck Rogers. -- Tom Wolfe p No evil proceeds on any grounds of reason. -- Titus Livius p No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle p No good building without a good foundation. p No light, but rather darkness visible. -- Milton p No lock will hold against the power of gold. p No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil. p No man can bargain with a clock. -- Michael Uhrin p No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. p No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. -- W. C. Brann p No man can play the fool as well as the wise man. p No man has a lease of his life. p No man is a hero to his valet. -- Madame Anne Cornuel p No man is an island. -- John Donne p No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent. -- Lincoln p No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -- Oscar Wilde p No man is wise at all times. p No man is wise enough to be another man's master. -- Edward Abbey p No man lives so poor as he was born. -- Fuller p No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne p No man's credit is as good as his money. -- E. W. Howe p No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session. -- Gideon Tucker p No matter how certain you are, always consider that you might be wrong. p No matter how much cynicism you have, it is never enough to keep up. -- Tomlin p No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. -- Adams p No matter what a guy thinks of, it's almost always false. -- Richard Feynman p No matter what we are talking about, we are talking about ourselves. -- Prather p No matter what you do, you are intuitive. -- Carolyn Myss p No matter who's in my life, they're there by divine design. -- Carolyn Myss p No news is good news. -- J. Payn p No one becomes depraved in a moment. p No one can get ahead of you when they are kicking you in the rear. p No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt p No one can out-perform their own self-image. p No one ever listened himself out of a job. -- Calvin Coolidge p No one gets off this planet unenlightened. -- Carolyn Myss p No one has yet invented a successful substitute for work. p No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. -- Danish proverb p No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect. p No one knows what he can do till he tries. -- Publilius Syrus p No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. p No one understands anything that isn't funny. p No one understands everything, and no one needs to. -- J. Redford p No opinion has ever been too errant to become creed. -- Bertrand Russell p No pain, no gain. p No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. -- Mandell Creighton p No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances. p No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. -- Schulz p No question is so difficult as one to which the answer is obvious. -- George Shaw p No region can include itself as well. -- Whitehead p No rose without a thorn. p No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -- Stanislaw Lee p No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth. -- Quintus Ennius p No tyranny is more fierce than the tyranny of morality. -- P. D. Ouspensky p No value can be put upon good counsel. -- Howell p No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. p Nobility is expensive, non-productive, and parasitic. -- Alan Weisman p Nobody ever got a rainbow unless they got some rain. -- Jim Croce p Nobody ever got to the top without slipping up. -- Colin Powell p Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one. -- Edward Abbey p Nobody roots for Goliath. -- Wilt Chamberlain p Non Illegitemus Carborundum. (Don't let the bastards wear you down.) p Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. -- Mohandas Gandhi p None knows the weight of another's burden. -- George Herbert p None love the bearer of bad news. -- Sophocles p Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E. M. Forster p Nonsense needs complex misdirection to make it sound plausible. -- Conquest p Nostalgia is what turns the past tense into past perfect. p Not all who own a harp are harpers. -- Marcus Terentius Varro p Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down. -- Harvey Mackay p Not everyone whose eyes are closed is asleep. -- Hebrew proverb p Not failure, but low aim is sin. -- Benjamin Mays p Not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of good luck. -- Brown p Not knowing is the hardest thing to know. p Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. p Not only do organisms evolve; the mechanisms by which they evolve, evolve too. p Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. -- Emerson p Nothing beats love at first sight except love with insight. p Nothing dries sooner than tears. -- Cicero p Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus p Nothing ever fatigues me, except that which I dislike. -- Jane Austen p Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging. -- Samuel Johnson p Nothing goes out of date as fast as our predictions for the future. p Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Emerson p Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. p Nothing in the physical world is stronger than you unless you give it strength. p Nothing is as easy as it looks. -- Murphy p Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. -- Jim Horning p Nothing is but what is not. p Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. -- Epicurus p Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. -- Bucy p Nothing is ever all said and done. p Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -- Weller p Nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason. -- Blutarsky p Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. p Nothing is impossible to God. p Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. -- Claudian p Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. p Nothing is often a clever thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. p Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. p Nothing is so firmly believed as which is least known. -- de Montaigne p Nothing is so frustrating as a bad situation beginning to improve. -- Shannon p Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. -- Pohl p Nothing is sometimes the best thing to say. p Nothing makes a vacation seem better than hindsight. p Nothing makes for more good old days than a bad memory. p Nothing succeeds without a champion. p Nothing that is violent is permanent. p Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde p Nothing ventured, nothing gained. -- Leng-Tzu p Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. -- Horace p Notice how your desires keep manifesting in thoughts. -- Ram Dass p Nowadays, the illiterates can read and write. -- Alberto Moravia p O Lord -- if there is a Lord; save my soul -- if I have a soul. -- Ernest Renan p Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great. -- Fuller p Obedience is the first duty of a soldier. p Obligation kills passions. p Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. -- Bernard p Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal. p Obstinancy is the strength of the weak. -- Lavater p Occasionally lose sight, never lose vision; nothing is gained through division. p Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. p Of all forms of currency, guilt is the most inconvertible. -- John Taylor p Of course life is finite, but the only sane way to live is to pretend otherwise. -- Alan Silverstein p Of making many books there is no end. -- Old Testament p Of money, wisdom, and good faith there is commonly less than men count upon. p Of money, wit, and virtue believe one-fourth of what you hear. -- Mapletoft p Often it's not the water but the cup. -- John Taylor p Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. -- William Shakespeare p Old age comes stealing on. p Old age is the harbor of all ills. -- Bion p Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky p Old age needs so little, but it needs that little so much. p Old friends and old wine and old gold are best. p Old friendships bear witness to your life in its entirety. -- Carol Moss p Old love will not be forgotten. -- T. Heywood p Old men go to death; death comes to young men. p Old sin makes new shame. p Old soldiers never die. Young ones do. p Old thanks pay not for a new debt. -- Torriano p On your journey to consciousness you must go through the dark night of the soul. p Once a thief, always a thief. -- Stevens p Once a use and ever a custom. p Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. -- Horace p Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. -- Homer p Once one has tasted life, death doesn't even seem natural. -- Philip Roth p Once you accept his assumptions even a madman seems reasonable. p Once you become a walker, you become a conservationist. -- Colin Fletcher p Once you realize God knows everything, you're free. -- Ram Dass p One 'tis not significant till it be the last one. p One bad general is better than two good ones. -- Lincoln p One big pile is better than two little piles. -- Arlo Guthrie p One by one, like leaves from a tree, all my faiths have forsaken me. -- Teasdale p One can acquire everything in solitude except character. -- Stendahl p One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. -- Oscar Wilde p One can hardly please all men. -- Thomas Draxe p One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. -- Keller p One can only accept in others what one can accept in oneself. -- James Baldwin p One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. p One cannot prevent a problem by pretending that it doesn't exist. -- Schumacher p One cause is good until the other is understood. p One enemy can do more harm than ten friends can do good. p One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it. p One good turn deserves another. -- Gaius Petronius p One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellow. p One hand cannot applaud. -- Arabian proverb p One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. -- Oscar Wilde p One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. -- Chateaubriand p One learns to itch where one can scratch. -- Ernest Bramah p One lie or one peanut... One leads to another. p One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. -- A. Porchia p One mad action is not enough to prove a man mad. -- Fuller p One man's ceiling is another man's floor. -- Paul Simon p One man's gain is another man's loss. -- D. H. Lawrence p One man's magic is another man's engineering. p One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. -- Robert Heinlein p One master in any house is enough. -- Erasmus p One may sooner fall than rise. -- Thomas Draxe p One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it. p One must be frank to be relevant. -- Corazon Aquino p One must imagine Sisyphus happy. -- Albert Camus p One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. -- Johann von Goethe p One never loses anything by politeness. p One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. p One of the fundamental laws of creation is that energy comes before matter. p One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. -- Bagehot p One of these days is none of these days. p One pair of ears dry a hundred tongues. -- George Herbert p One pardons in the degree that one loves. -- Le Rochefoucauld p One person tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. p One person with courage makes a majority. p One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. -- Chinese proverb p One place you don't want to be special is in the doctor's office. p One poison drives out another. p One positive weighs more than twenty negatives. p One seldom sees a monument to a committee. p One should have faith in rain but never trust it. p One should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner. -- Oscar Wilde p One sows and another reaps. p One success is worth more than a thousand failures. p One tale is good till another is told. p One way to get into trouble is to be right at the wrong time. p One without education is compelled to use his brains. p One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. -- Edward Abbey p One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. p Only 10% of anything can be in the top 10%. p Only a ballplayer's errors are published every day. p Only a fool has no doubts. p Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. -- Edward Abbey p Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- Somerset Maugham p Only a moralist advocates a virtue even to those incapable of it. -- Wall p Only a strong player knows how weakly he plays. -- Saviely Tartakower p Only at the planes below the fourth chakra do you need to maintain a body. p Only cowards insult dying majesty. -- Aesop p Only fools are positive. -- Moe Howard p Only fools say it can't be done. p Only God can make random selections. p Only ideas that we actually live by are of any value. -- Hermann Hesse p Only invest in products and companies you can explain to a six year old. -- Morgan Housel p Only military people deal with randomness with genuine... intellectual honesty. -- Nassim Taleb p Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. p Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. -- Ram Dass p Only the educated are free. -- Epictetus p Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. -- Ionesco p Only the rich preach contentment to the poor. p Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. p Only what we partly know inspires us with the desire to know more. -- Emerson p Only when you journey fully conscious to the pain do you gain the wisdom. p Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. p Onward through the fog. p Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. -- Thomas Mann p Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around. p Opportunity makes the thief. p Opposites attract. -- Leng-Tzu p Oppression makes a wise man mad. p Optimization hinders evolution. p Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. p Other people's tools work only in other people's gardens. p Other times, other manners. p Our bodies were designed to have integrity. -- Carolyn Myss p Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. p Our choice is limited: Either the whole universe, or nothing. -- H. G. Wells p Our fantasies are stepping stones to our realities. -- Mae Jameson, astronaut p Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. -- Eric Hoffer p Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself. -- Packard p Our investment in another creates the level of involvement we have with them. p Our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. p Our money can never be as valuable as our memories or our friendships. -- Ogburn p Our nature demands love, and our happiness depends on it. p Our property must intrude on another, stand in another's way. -- James Carse p Our self image is our window to our world. -- Will Limon p Our sins and our debts are often more than we think. -- Howell p Our spirit is fuel; it is energy. -- Carolyn Myss p Our stuff has become a "footprint" that is trampling on our Garden of Eden. -- Norris Burkes p Our sun rises precisely where we choose to see it rise. -- John Taylor p Our whole society is addicted to debt. -- Peter Nelson p Our wires are attached to the fact that financial energy equals sexual energy. p Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Omar Bradley p Out of sight, out of mind. -- Leng-Tzu p Out there, we are all part of the food chain. p Over my mask / is your mask of me. -- Mitsuye Yamada p Own the market rather than try to outsmart it. -- Allan Roth p Pack it in, pack it out. p Pain is inevitable, but suffering is our choice. p Pain makes cowards of us all. -- Vince Lombardi p Painted pictures are dead speakers. -- Breton p Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. -- Edward Abbey p Passion is as crucial as rocket fuel when you're trying to leave Earth. -- Andrew Chaiken p Past cure, past care. p Patch griefs with proverbs. p Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden. -- Thomas Draxe p Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue. -- Bierce p Patience is not the ability to wait, but to keep a good attitude while waiting. p Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. -- Titus Maccius Plautus p Patience is the companion of wisdom. -- St. Augustine p Patience under old injuries invites new ones. p Patience, time, and money accommodate all things. -- George Herbert p Patriotism is inherently belligerent. -- James Carse p Pauca sed matura. (Few but excellent.) -- Gauss p Paul's Law of Reorganizations: Tornados don't bother earthworms. p Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf. -- Cecil Purdy p Pay attention to what you want to control. -- Carolyn Myss p Pay attention to your body. It doesn't lie. p Pay attention, and you will have understanding. -- Solomon p Peace is the work of strong men; war, the courage of the cowardly. p Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like cancer. -- Solomon p Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. p Penny wise, pound foolish. p People are better than their theology. -- Emerson p People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -- Joseph Newton p People become how they're treated. -- Doug McKenzie p People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. p People don't govern better than they campaign. -- Tom von Alten p People don't want to write. They want to have written. -- Graham Greene p People free to do as they choose usually imitate what others are doing. -- Jonah Berger p People get better if you pay attention to them. -- Steven Bratman p People like to talk more than they like to listen. -- Scott Adams p People live as if they'll never die, then die as if they had never lived. p People look for affirmation, not information. p People lose their health to make money, then lose their money to regain health. p People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible. -- Rogers p People mistake obscurity for profundity. p People often don't value what they don't pay for. -- H. Jackson Brown p People only accept change in necessity, and see necessity only in crisis. -- Jean Monnet p People only notice squeaky wheels. p People only pay attention to what they discover for themselves. -- Semple p People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Emerson p People optimize that which is measured, and hide their dirt elsewhere. -- Tom DeMarco p People say they don't have enough time, but they have all the time there is. p People should be measured in feats, not feet. p People sucking on the public teat have an obligation not to bite it. p People support that which they help to create. p People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. p People tend to steer in the direction of the object that has their attention. -- Carl Ozek p People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. -- Ken Kesey p People think they're thinking when they're merely rearranging their prejudices. p People who can least afford to pay rent pay rent. p People who can most afford to pay rent build equity. p People who censor books are usually illiterate. -- John MacDonald p People who cry frequently enjoy better health overall. -- Victor Parachin p People who do know history repeat it as long as it is profitable. -- Les Earnest p People who don't have goals work for those who do. -- Jack Canfield p People who have nothing to say are never at loss in talking. -- Josh Billings p People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. p People who prefer the finer things in life prefer people. p People who set traps for others get caught themselves. -- Solomon p People who value security more than liberty will have neither. -- Ben Franklin p People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. p People with a hot temper do foolish things; wiser people remain calm. -- Solomon p People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues. p People would never do anything if they knew what they were getting into. p Peoples' opinions change, but the conviction of their correctness never does. p Perceived necessity makes prostitutes of us all. p Perception is reality, but perception is not necessarily truth. p Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey p Perfection is not attainable, but by chasing perfection we can catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi p Perhaps it was because Nero played the fiddle that they burned Rome. p Perhaps we invented God to take the burden of self-judgement from us. p Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. p Personal attacks demean those who make them. p Personal finance is 80% behavior and 20% head knowledge. -- Dave Ramsey p Personal integrity is cleaning up your mess in a public restroom. p Personality is the psychological equivalent of scar tissue. p Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. -- Charles Schwab p Persons who disagree with you are always emotional and employ faulty reasoning. p Pessimist: Man who looks for a pink slip before the money in his pay envelope. p Philosophers only interpret the world differently; the point is, to change it. p Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. -- Karl Marx p Philosophy just fools you into thinking what you do is right. -- O'Connor p Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. -- John Keats p Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. p Physicians kill more than they cure. -- Burton p Pictures are the books of the unlearned. -- Fuller p Pictures worth a thousand words take ten thousand times as long to draw. p Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill p Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. p Plain dealing is praised more than practiced. -- Clarke p Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right. -- Solomon p Plan for success, and deal with failure. -- Paul Rygaard p Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. -- Frederick Brooks p Plans are nothing; planning is everything. p Plants are at the bottom of the food chain and do their own mining. p Plants stand still and wait to be counted. -- John Harper p Play is not the absence of work. p Playing a game shows some of one's character. How one loses shows all of it. p Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle p Plenty breeds pride. -- Gascoigne p Plug yourself into the attitude of gratitude. -- Carolyn Myss p Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup. p Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. -- Mao Zedong p Politicians are the only people who create problems, then campaign against them. -- Charlie Reese p Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands. -- Sean O'Casey p Pollution is merely a misplaced resource. p Poor is a man whose words die with him. -- John Taylor p Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus. p Possessions create pain. p Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. (After this, therefore caused by this.) p Post proelium, praemium. (After the battle, the reward.) p Poverty is being invisible... excluded from community. It is internal exile. p Poverty is living below your reference point. p Poverty is the mother of all arts. p Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle p Power attracts the corruptible. -- David Brin p Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. p Power does not corrupt man; fools in a position of power corrupt power. -- Shaw p Power grows out of someone else's dependency. p Power is poison. p Power rules, but love wins. p Power to the peaceful. p Practice is the best of all instructors. -- Publilius p Practice makes permanent. p Practice may not make perfect, but it makes permanent. -- John Milton p Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control. p Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. p Practice yourself what you preach. -- Titus Plautus p Praise in public, scold in private. p Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse. p Praise the child, and you make love to the mother. p Praise the sea, but keep on land. -- Florio p Pray for what you want, but work for what you need. p Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. -- Russian proverb p Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. p Prayer should never be answered; if it is... it becomes correspondence. -- Oscar Wilde p Prejudice is being down on something you are not up on. p Preserve the old, but know the new. p Pretense is always a prologue. -- Michael Uhrin p Prevention is better than cure. p Pride feels no pain. p Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. -- Mark Twain p Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. p Privilege isn't presence of perks+benefits, but absence of obstacles+barriers. -- Marie Beecham p Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves. -- Davis p Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grow. p Productivity is often not worth the personal price. p Professional sales people do not compromise their integrity for a sale. p Professionals are predictable, it is the amateurs that are dangerous. p Program yourself to become intuitively aware. -- Carolyn Myss p Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things. -- Robert Heinlein p Progress stops on satisfaction. -- Mika Salkola p Promise is debt. p Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken. -- Ward p Promising costs nothing; it's the delivering that kills you. p Promising is the eve of giving. p Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword. p Proof by repeated assertion is no proof at all. p Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold. -- Hobbes p Proposals, as understood by the proposer, will be judged otherwise by others. p Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. p Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus p Prototype designs always work. -- Don Vonada p Prototyping is always unexpectedly expensive. -- Alan Silverstein p Providing too much information defeats the purpose of providing any. -- John Roberts p Psychoanalysis is the mental disease whose therapy it claims to be. -- Kraus p Psychotherapy is just as high as the psychotherapist. -- Ram Dass p Public goods, privately provided, tend to be under-provided. p Public property is never so well taken care of as private property. -- Cobbett p Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. -- Evelyn Waugh p Puritan: A person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. p Pursue contentment, not happiness. Avoid the hedonic treadmill. p Put all your eggs in one basket and -- WATCH THAT BASKET. -- Mark Twain p Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. -- Oliver Holmes p Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth in motion. p Put your genius into your life. Put only your talent into your work. p Put your trust in those who are worthy. p Quality is not a stage in the process. It is the way of the process. p Quality, without quantity, is little thought of. p Quantum mechanics are the dreams stuff is made of. p Question authority. p Questions are never indiscreet; answers sometimes are. -- Oscar Wilde p Quick believers need broad shoulders. -- George Herbert p Quickly come, quickly go. p Quiet the outer world, so that the inner world might bring you sight. -- God? p Quietness is a great treasure. -- Henderson p Quit while you're ahead. -- Leng-Tzu p Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. p Rank has its privileges. p Rather a man without money than money without a man. p Rather sell than be poor. -- John Ray p Readers are not interested in the mechanics of authorship. -- A. A. Milne p Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. p Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -- Sir Richard Steele p Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. p Real epidemiologists don't shake hands. -- T. Christopher Bond p Real joy comes from doing something worthwhile. p Real love stories never have endings. p Real men don't feel the need to prove it. p Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. -- Benjamin Disraeli p Real poverty is lack of books. -- Colette p Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller p Reality is the flaw in the perfection of nothingness. p Reality is when it happens to you. p Reality often astonishes theory. -- Tom Magliozzi p Reason and love keep little company nowadays. -- William Shakespeare p Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. -- Karl Marx p Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. -- Edward Abbey p Reason rules all things. p Reasonable people find it difficult to... understand unreasonable behaviour. -- Carlo Cipolla p Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. p Records were made to be broken. p Red clouds in the east, rain the next day. p Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning. p Reformers should be conscious of the law of unintended consequences. -- Stone p Refuse to replicate your own dehumanization. -- Lillian Roybal-Rose p Regardless of how many times you are right, you will sometimes be wrong. p Relationships are a wonderful way of getting your buttons pushed. -- Lee Coit p Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. -- Anatole France p Religion is a defense against the experience of God. -- Carl Jung p Religion is certainty without proofs. -- Amiel p Religion is the fashionable substitute for Belief. -- Oscar Wilde p Religion is the opium of the people. -- Karl Marx p Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon p Religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. -- Mill p Religion stops a thinking mind. p Religion... enables humans who don't have all the answers to think that they do. -- Bill Maher p Religions are like glow worms, they require darkness to shine. -- Schopenhauer p Religions die when they are proved to be true. -- Oscar Wilde p Religions revolve madly around sexual questions. -- Remy de Gourmont p Rely on the two finest teachers, trial and error. -- Colin Fletcher p Remain as much as possible in the state of the witness. -- Ram Dass p Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. -- Hans Liepmann p Remember the poor -- it costs nothing. -- Josh Billings p Remember them as they were and write them off. -- Ernest Hemingway p Remember to never split an infinitive. -- William Safire p Remembering is for those who have forgotten. -- Chinese proverb p Repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success. p Reproduction is the ultimate form of consumption. p Reputation is commonly measured by acres. p Research should begin and end in the library. -- Michael Shimkin p Research: See what everyone saw, but think what no one else thought. p Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. -- Carson McCullers p Resist the urge to tinker. -- Scott Adams p Resoluteness sleeps in a bed of knowledge. -- John Taylor p Respect must be earned, not commanded. p Respect the past, knowing it was once all that was humanly possible. p Respect the role luck has played on some of your role models. -- Morgan Housel p Revelation is not sealed. (Direct connection to Truth remains obtainable.) p Revenge is mine, saith the lord. -- Bible p Revenge is sweet. p Rich folk have many friends. p Rich folks's money is always on paper; poor folks's money is in cash. p Rich: You have enough money that your money works for you, and not vice-versa. p Riches cover a multitude of woes. p Riches have wings. p Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. p Right wrongs no man. -- Henderson p Ripen tomatoes stem end up at room temperature. p Rising equity glidepaths create a "Heads you win, tails you don't lose" outcome. -- Pfau and Kitces p Rivers need a spring. -- George Herbert p Rock gives reality to the otherwise abstract notion of transhuman time. -- Edward Abbey p Rocks might teach us life's secrets, were it not for the language barrier. p Romance addiction is an invention of Western culture. -- Anne Schaeff p Romantic stages are mental illness: You're "crazy about someone." -- Will Limon p Rome was not built in a day. -- Cervantes p Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius p Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. p Rule 1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule 2: It's all small stuff. p Rule youth well, and age will rule itself. p Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish. -- Lao Tsu p Sailors go round the world without going into it. p Sailors have a port in every storm. -- J. T. Smith p Salary is no object: Strive only to keep body and soul apart. p Sanity is nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws. p Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. p Saving face is important. Give your opponent the opportunity to withdraw. p Say no, then negotiate. -- Helga p Saying and doing are two different things. -- J. de Luna p Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. -- Oscar Wilde p Scatter with one hand, gather with two. -- Howell p Scholarship is polite argument. -- Philip Rieff p Science and conscience belong together. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Science can progress on the basis of error as long as it is not trivial. p Science demands a tolerance for ambiguity. -- Carl Sagan p Science has no enemy but the ignorant. -- L. Digges p Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. p Science is magic that works. -- Kurt Vonnegut p Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. -- Carl Sagan p Science is sometimes a cruel mistress. p Science is the process for sorting out the possible from the impossible. -- Tom Siegfried p Science is the topography of ignorance. -- Oliver Holmes p Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war. -- Edward Abbey p Science is trustworthy precisely because it can fail. -- Stuart Firestein p Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein p Science's great tragedy: The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. p Science, based on evidence, cares nothing for what you personally like or don't. p Science: An orderly arrangement of what at the moment seem to be facts. p Science: No thing is nothing. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Science: Nonsense does not always make no sense. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Science: The creation of dilemmas by the solution of mysteries. p Science: To see or not to see, that's the main question. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Scientific minds do not so much provide right answers as ask right questions. p Scientific progress: Milestones or millstones? -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Scientists keep romantics honest; romantics keep scientists human. p Scientists... can often recognize nonsense when they come across it. -- Crick p Scripts determine the destiny and the identity of the individual. -- Eric Berne p Search for life, and Life will find you. -- Kevin Cook p Searching for the invisible is not for the faint of heart. -- Stephen Hawking p Season your words with kindness; someday you might have to eat them. p Second thoughts are best. p Second-rate people hire third-rate people. p Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. p Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? (Who guards the Guardians?) p See things symbolically instead of literally. -- Carolyn Myss p See yourself as a success and your success is assured. p Seek and ye shall find. -- Bible p Seek not to understand that you may believe but believe that you may understand. p Seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. -- Dag Hammarskjold p Seek the testimony of the few; and number not voices, but weight them. -- Kant p Seeking for the Buddha's nature is much like riding an ox in search of the ox. p Seize the day; put no trust in the morrow! -- Horace p Seldom seen, soon forgotten. p Self do, self have. p Self-abuse is the most certain road to the grave. -- G. M. Calhoun p Self-determination does not negate self-control. p Self-hatred is the source of all problems on the planet. -- Oprah Winfrey p Self-justification is not the same thing as lying or making excuses. -- Tavris and Aronson p Self-preservation is the first law of nature. p Self-veiling is a contradictory act -- a free suspension of our freedom. -- James Carse p Selling the solution is often more difficult than solving the problem. -- Salzer p Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. -- Oscar Wilde p Servants make the worst masters. p Set aside a little time every once in a while to experience silence. -- Deepak Chopra p Set goals that have many ways of being realized. -- Scott Adams p Seven turns out to be a very hip number in the melodrama. -- Ram Dass p Severe enforcement of a bad law will hasten its repeal. -- Lawrence Hirsch p Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. p Sex discriminates against the shy and ugly. p Shakespeare and Dante divide the world between them. -- T. S. Eliot p Shame is an improper emotion invented by pietists to oppress the human race. p She bore a great soul in a little body. -- Quiller-Couch p She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -- Austin p She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. -- Dorothy Parker p Shielding men from the effects of folly fills the world with fools. -- Spencer p Ships fear fire more than water. -- George Herbert p Short acquaintance brings repentance. -- John Ray p Show me one man who deserves to live forever. -- Edward Abbey p Show you care about security, or security will show it "cares" about you. p Sic transit gloria mundi. (So passes away the glory of the world.) -- Kempis p Sickness shows us what we are. -- Fuller p Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. -- George Beston p Silence cannot be misquoted. p Silence is sometimes the best answer. p Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Carlyle p Silence is the unbearable repartee. -- Charles Dickens p Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly. -- Fuller p Silence seldom hurts. -- Fuller p Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them later. p Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. p Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. -- Oscar Wilde p Simple tasks should be simple, and complex tasks should be possible. -- Ed Moore p Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. p Simplicity may be a gift, but I think complexity is much more interesting. -- Elizabeth Quill p Sin boldly. -- Martin Luther p Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. p Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. -- Robert Heinlein p Sin that is hidden is half-forgiven. -- G. Fenton p Sing, sing a song of joy, for love and understanding! p Singleness is gaining a sense of self you will not compromise for someone else. p Six feet of earth make all men equal. p Skepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or a lighthouse. p Skepticism is dangerous. That's exactly its function. -- Carl Sagan p Skepticism is the beginning of faith. -- Oscar Wilde p Skepticism is the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. -- John Dewey p Skeptics laugh in order not to weep. -- Anatole France p Slang: Language that doffs its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. p Sleep is the best meditation. -- Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama p Sleep is the brother of death. p Sloth is a somatic skepticism, the way the flesh doubts. -- E. M. Cioran p Slowly, but surely, humanity makes real the dreams of the wise. -- A. France p Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes p Small profits and quick returns. p Small rain lays great dust. -- John Ray p Small streams of caring become a pool of love. p Small things make mean men proud. -- William Shakespeare p Smart folks speak from experience. Smarter folks, from experience, don't speak. p Smart people learn from mistakes; geniuses learn from other people's mistakes. -- Alan Silverstein p So I have promised you, I'll be as good as my word. -- William Shakespeare p So long as you stay vague, nothing changes. -- Carolyn Myss p So long as your will is in a fog, you will be an addict. -- Carolyn Myss p So many ask God to grant so much, and then take so much for granted! -- White p So many men, so many minds. -- Terence p So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way. p So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains. p Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being. p Social problems are very much harder than scientific ones. -- Richard Feynman p Social skills require rapidly inferring meaning from facial expression. p Societies that rely on conscription to survive do not deserve to exist. p Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. -- B.F. Skinner p Society is a mule, not a car; if pressed harder, it will kick and throw you off. p Society is defined by its boundaries; a culture is defined by its horizon. p Soft words and hard arguments. -- John Ray p Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. p Solitude is the nest of thought. p Solitude: A great place to visit, but a bad place to stay. p Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once. -- Edward Abbey p Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. -- Ed Howe p Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. p Some men rob you with a six-gun, others with a fountain pen. -- Woodie Guthrie p Some men succeed in spite of their faults, others because of them. -- McKeown p Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem p Some of us learn from other peoples' errors. The rest must be the other people. p Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mouths. -- Solomon p Some people believe anything if you whisper it. p Some people live from the chin up. p Some people read because they are too lazy to think. p Some people think they are worth a lot of money simply because they have it. p Some problems can never be solved, only outgrown. -- Carl Jung p Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. p Some self-veiling is present in all finite games. -- James Carse p Some tasks are easier to do than to delegate. -- Alan Silverstein p Some things have to be believed to be seen. p Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow. p Something must be left to chance. -- W. C. Russell p Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -- Seneca p Sometimes I wonder whether God enjoys Christmas. -- Horace Rumpole p Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -- Lily Tomlin p Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. -- Solomon p Sometimes it takes wisdom to stop beating your head against the wall. p Sometimes let things happen, but sometimes make things happen. p Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. -- David Letterman p Sometimes you must tread water until you know which way is the shore. -- Zeidman p Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan p Sooner begun, sooner done. p Sooner or later the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur. p Sorrow is always dry. p Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. -- Camden p Sorrow makes silence her best orator. -- S. Daniel p Sorrow shared is halved; joy shared is doubled. p Sorrow will pay no debt. p Sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one. p Space is to place as eternity is to time. -- Joseph Joubert p Space is unforgiving. -- Louis Friedman p Spacetime tells matter how to move, and matter tells spacetime how to curve. -- John Wheeler p Spare the rod and spoil the child. -- Old Testament p Spare when you are young, and spend when you are old. p Spatial boundaries are evident in every finite conflict. -- James Carse p Speak fitly, or be silent wisely. p Speak not of my debts, unless you mean to pay them. -- George Herbert p Speak only well of people and you will never have to whisper. p Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing. -- Mapletoft p Speak when you are spoken to. -- John Ray p Speaking or writing without thinking is like shooting without aiming. -- Glasow p Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -- Roger Staubach p Speech is silver, silence is golden. p Speeches are like babies: Easy to conceive, but extremely hard to deliver. p Speed doesn't kill, indecision does. Speed just reduces your available choices. p Spend enough time confirming the need and the need will disappear. p Spend more time planning your marriage than your wedding. p Spending less money creates more time. -- Jeff Yeager p Spirituality is the sense of awe and wonder for the creation that surrounds us. -- Norris Burkes p Squander nothing, share everything. p Stagger onward rejoicing. -- WH Auden p Stagnation is stopping in one's tracks and waiting for death to approach. p Standard is better than better. Standard plus better is better yet. p Start being grateful for the person even though you can't see the gift. -- Coit p Starvation is no laughing matter. -- Thackeray p Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay p Statistics should support common sense. -- Nancy Kanwisher p Staying the same is the first step towards getting worse. -- Jon Kedrowski p Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. -- Corwin p Step back for a moment and witness the choices you make. -- Deepak Chopra p Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. -- Leng-Tzu p Stocks let us eat well. Bonds let us sleep well. p Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better. -- Solomon p Stone walls have ears, and a bird of the air shall carry the matter. -- Scott p Stop one from digging his grave and he will hit you over the head with a shovel. p Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. p Straight trees have crooked roots. -- Lyly p Strangers are just friends who have never met. -- John Taylor p Stress is an equal opportunity destroyer. -- Brian Seaward p Strike while the iron is hot. -- Chaucer p Strive for perfection; settle for happiness. p Stronger is one who holds back while pushing forward. -- John Taylor p Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. -- Saint Paul p Stupid people advertise their ignorance. -- Solomon p Stupidity is immune to education. -- Scott Adams p Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. -- Bill Davidsen p Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crud. p Substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. -- Eddington p Success breeds comfort, and comfort breeds failure. p Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration. p Success covers a multitude of blunders. -- George Shaw p Success gives man big head, also big belly. -- Confucius p Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan. p Success is built on a willingness to fail. p Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. p Success is merely a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -- Earl Wilson p Success is not a destination; it is a journey. -- Zig Ziglar p Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. p Success is not the immunity of adversity but the proof that you've conquered it! p Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. -- Deepak Chopra p Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. -- Adolph Hitler p Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. -- Mike Ditka p Success makes a fool seem wise. -- Mapletoft p Success never happens until you decide to leave mediocrity. p Such sights as this are reserved for those who will suffer to behold them. p Sudden friendship, sure repentance. -- James Kelly p Suffer now, summit later. (mountaineering training advice) -- Jim Davidson p Suffering is purification: It's like the fire that gets you straight. -- Dass p Suffering plus meaning equals wisdom. -- Evan Hodkins p Supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence. p Surprise is a crucial element in most finite games. -- James Carse p Surrender your game, in which you have certain mastery, in order to go for more. p Survival isn't a hobby, it's an attitude. -- Len McDougall p Survival of the species is everyone's business. p Surviving is one thing; enjoying survival is another. -- Michael Lindemman p Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- William Shakespeare p Sweet appears sour when we pay. -- Howell p Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. -- Thomas Tusser p Systems resemble the organizations that create them. -- Johnson p Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. -- Cocteau p Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. p Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. -- Lyly p Take all things as they come, and be content. -- Davies p Take away my good name and take away my life. -- John Ray p Take care of the feet, and the miles take care of themselves. p Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. p Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. p Take care of the sense and the sound will take care of itself. -- Lewis Carroll p Take no more on you than you're able to bear. -- James Kelly p Take only pictures, leave only footprints, kill only time. p Take out the garbage or live with the stink. -- Sam Kaplan p Take total responsibility for yourself and your own happiness. -- Vikki Coit p Take what you can use and let the rest go by. -- Ken Kesey p Take your fee while the patient is still in pain. -- John of Salisbury p Take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein p Taking a break in the middle is not so rewarding as when the job is finished. p Talk of an angel and you will hear his wings. p Talk of the devil, and he is presently at your elbow. -- Torriano p Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides p Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli p Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare p Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p Talking pays no toll. -- George Herbert p TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. -- Robert Heinlein p Tantra means using the senses to go beyond the senses. -- Ram Dass p Tastes differ. p Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you results. p Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. p Technology is no more of a problem now than it has always been. -- J. Redford p Technology will continue to make our lives harder. -- Scott Adams p Technology: The knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it. p Television proves that people will look at anything, rather than each other. p Tell a child he got one right, not 99 wrong. p Tell a lie and find a truth. p Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are. -- Houssaye p Tell the truth and run. -- Yugoslav proverb p Tempt not a desperate man. -- William Shakespeare p Ten persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent. -- Napoleon p Tensions are normal in the claustrophobia of powerless subcultures. -- Gary Wolf p Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for. -- Will Rogers p That never ends ill which begins in God's name. -- Clarke p That sick man is not to be pitied who has his cure in his sleeve. -- Fuller p That that is past, cannot be recalled or helped. -- Thomas Draxe p That the world is, is the mystical. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein p That which is easily done is soon believed. -- Codrington p That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. -- Izaak Walton p That which is incapable of proof itself is not proof of anything else. -- Shelley p That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. p That which is possible is inevitable. -- William Williams p That which is truth will rise to the surface. -- Ram Dass p That which is well done is twice done. p That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind. -- Neil Armstrong p The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development. p The ability to tax is the ability to control. p The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. -- Franklin p The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. -- Albert Camus p The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. -- William Shakespeare p The advance of a language is retarded by sensitive ears. -- Thomas McKeown p The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson p The answers to prayers are usually found in those who pray. p The art of writing is knowing when to stop. -- Josh Billings p The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. p The author writes in my book; why should I not write in his? -- John Taylor p The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -- Andrew Rooney p The average life of an organization chart is six months. -- Scott Adams p The average nutritional value of promises is roughly zero. p The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. p The awakening is to the realization that you are in fact being guided. -- Dass p The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you're the pilot. -- Michael Altshuler p The balance between ecology and society is exquisitely delicate. -- Alan Weiseman p The basic raw material of the universe is non-material. -- Deepak Chopra p The basis of optimism is sheer terror. p The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers. -- Nashe p The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. -- Confucius p The belly is not filled with fair words. -- John Ray p The belly is the truest clock. p The best carpenter makes the fewest chips. p The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun. -- Alex Lowe p The best defense is a good offense. p The best grapefruit are thin-skinned and flat on top and bottom, not pointy. p The best investment on Earth, is Earth. p The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire p The best mirror is an old friend. p The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills. -- Edward Abbey p The best places of all, I have never mentioned. -- Edward Abbey p The best prophet of the future is the past. p The best remedy for any problem is to avoid it. -- Len McDougall p The best substitute for brains is silence. p The best thing to spend on your children is time. p The best things in life are free. -- Confucius p The best things in life... Aren't things. p The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. p The best way not to find a (love) partner is to attempt to find a partner. p The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -- Twain p The best way to get rid of worries is to let them die of neglect. p The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. p The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. -- H. Power p The best way to predict the future is to create it. -- Peter Drucker p The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare p The bigger one thing is, the smaller it makes another thing. -- Elizabeth Goudge p The bigger they are, the harder they fall. p The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. p The biggest mistake is not learning from all your other mistakes. p The blind hear your whisper, the deaf see your wink. -- Thomas McKeown p The book which most should be forbidden is a catalog of forbidden books. p The bottom line rests on Earth. -- David Brower p The brain allows man to escape from the laws of evolution... -- Loren Eiseley p The brain works from the moment of birth until you stand up to speak in public. p The brainwashed do not know they are brainwashed. -- Wendy Williams p The brevity of life calls for good wine. -- L. Bohn p The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. -- Don Herold p The burnt child dreads the fire. p The busiest men have the most time. p The busiest people are those whose time is their own. p The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. p The Caesar salad was named for hotel owner Caesar Cardini of Tijuana, Mexico. p The cat that chases two mice catches none. -- Leng-Tzu p The chief danger in life is that you might take too many precautions. -- Adler p The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir p The closer you get to becoming part of history, the more you appreciate history. -- Alan Silverstein p The confused mind always says, "no". p The consequences of events are as important as the probabilities of outcomes. p The correct prayer is never a prayer of supplication, but of gratitude. -- God? p The correlation between confidence and future regret is incredibly high. -- Morgan Housel p The covetous man is ever in want. -- Horace p The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword. -- Oscar Wilde p The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for surprise. -- James Carse p The cuckoo bird does not lay his own eggs. p The cup of our happiness is hollowed out by the flow of our tears. -- Kalil Gibran p The curve of pleasure is hyperbolic: First steps largest and most significant. p The customer is always right. p The dark side of the moon is harder to see; beaming light on it costs energy. -- Nassim Taleb p The day has eyes, the night has ears. -- Fergusson p The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead. -- Jennifer Senior p The dead are gone, and the show must go on. -- Karl Wallenda p The dearer a thing is, the cheaper as a general rule we sell it. -- Butler p The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. p The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Anaxagoras p The desire to become enlightened is still you desiring something. -- Ram Dass p The deterioration of our planet is an outward mirror of an inner condition. -- David Suzuki p The development of the will is the essential core of your spiritual journey. p The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare p The devil dances in an empty pocket. p The Devil must not be believed even when he tells the truth. -- Thomas Aquinas p The devil tempts the busy man, but the idle man tempts the devil. p The die is cast. -- Gaius Julius Caesar p The difference between ideas and results is a good manager. p The difference between theory and practice is less in theory than in practice. p The difference between tragedy and humor is whether it is happening to you. p The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. -- Niven p The discerning person is always at a disadvantage. p The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. -- Edward Abbey p The door is the key. p The dose makes the poison. -- Dr. Bruce Ames p The duty of the patriot is to protect his country from the government. -- Paine p The early bird catches the worm. -- Confucius p The Earth has all the time in the world -- and we don't. -- Oren Lyons p The Earth is not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children. p The Earth is our mother; our nine months are up. p The easiest way to steal is to let the victim think he's doing the stealing. p The effort required to correct your course increases exponentially with time. p The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. -- Walter Bilbey p The end crowns the work. p The end does not justify the means, whatever people may say. -- Thomas p The end justifies the means. -- Hermann Busenbaum p The end makes all equal. p The end of anything is better than its beginning. -- Old Testament p The end of labor is to gain leisure. p The environment is as high as I am. -- Ram Dass p The errors to avoid are those that eliminate opportunities to try again. p The essence of wealth is life energy. -- Deepak Chopra p The essential is invisible to the eye. -- St. Exupery p The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. p The evils of controversy are temporary, its benefits are permanent. -- R. Hall p The exception proves the rule. p The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. -- James Carse p The external world is socially constructed. -- Ellen Langer p The eye is a radical, the tongue an anarchist, the ear a conservative. -- McKeown p The eyes have one language everywhere. -- George Herbert p The face is no index to the heart. p The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. p The fairest flowers soonest fade. p The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull. p The farmer doesn't go to work; he wakes up surrounded by it. p The farther you go, the less you know. -- Lao Tsu p The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare p The fear of evil is worse than the event. -- Marmion p The feeling of love is your experience of God. -- Conversations with God p The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else. -- Edward Abbey p The fewer his years, the fewer his tears. -- Fuller p The fewer the influences in one's life, the more ill-balanced they become. p The field cannot well be seen from within the field. -- Emerson p The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. p The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous. p The finite player plays for immortality; the infinite player plays as a mortal. p The fire that warms us at a distance will burn us when near. p The first and last frosts are the worst. -- George Herbert p The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. -- Abbie Hoffman p The first love is the fastest. p The first principle is that you must not fool yourself... -- Richard Feynmann p The first requisite for immortality is death. -- Stanislaw Lem p The first rule is to last. -- Dan Rather p The first rule of business is that the customer always comes first. p The first step to helping the world is finding peace in your own mind. -- Hayward p The first symptom of a heart problem is chest pain; the second is denial. p The first thing every child learns is that he is not the entire universe. p The first version always gets thrown away. p The foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. -- Oscar Wilde p The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. -- Buddha p The fossil hunter does not kill, he resurrects. -- Dr. George Simpson p The fragile should break early, while it's still small. -- Nassim Taleb p The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. p The function of consciousness is to tell us the story of our lives. -- Hayward p The further a society drifts from truth, the more it hates those that speak it. -- George Orwell p The future is a race between education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells p The future is purchased by the present. -- Samuel Johnson p The future just ain't what it used to be. -- Yogi Berra (It never was.) p The future just isn't what it used to be, but the past's as good as it ever was. p The future will be increasingly less predictable. -- Nassim Taleb p The game is much more interesting than we thought it was. -- Ram Dass p The game of enlightenment starts from exactly where you are at this moment. p The gap between your thoughts is your connection to pure potentiality. -- Deepak Chopra p The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial. p The gift of flight is reserved for those who jump. -- Marley Porter p The gods match you question for question. -- Carolyn Myss p The gods never show off -- they don't have to. -- Carolyn Myss p The gods play in divine paradox. -- Carolyn Myss p The gods, too, are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle p The golden age never was the present age. p The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move. p The golden rule is that there is no golden rule. -- Bernard Shaw p The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -- Neil Tyson p The graveyards are full of indispensable people. p The greater the man, the greater the crime. p The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. -- Edward Abbey p The greatest ability is dependability. p The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Colton p The greatest gift you can give someone is to be whole and not dependent on them. p The greatest gifts we give cannot be seen. -- Carolyn Myss p The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. -- Sophocles p The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Only people who risk are free. p The greatest man in history was the poorest. p The greatest mistake is to sacrifice health for any other advantage. p The greatest obstacle to communication is the perception it already occurred. p The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. p The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Bagehot p The greatest prayer is patience. p The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert Heinlein p The greatest remedy for anger is delay. p The greatest scholars are not the best preachers. -- E. Leigh p The greatest skill appears to be fumbling. -- Lao Tsu p The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that outlasts it. -- James p The greatest victory is graceful acceptance of defeat. p The guiding principle of science is economy of explanation. -- A. N. Whitehead p The hand of a truly great engineer is nearly invisible. -- Rork Kuick p The hand that kindles cannot quench the flame. p The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. p The hard thing to do is the right thing to do. -- John MacDonald p The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson p The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -- Thomas Paine p The harder you work the luckier you get. p The hardest part of ethics is holding to them when they are used against you. p The hardest thing in the world is to put feeling, deep feeling, into words. p The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. p The head never starts to swell until the mind stops growing. p The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal p The heart is wiser than the intellect. p The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. p The highest form of ignorance is rejecting something you know nothing about. -- Wayne Dyer p The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do. -- Georg Gurdjieff p The highway to virtue isn't paved at all. p The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon by the bee. p The horrible fact is people don't know what they want until you give it to them. p The horrors of war, great as they are, pale before the horror of evil unopposed. p The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. -- Seneca p The human body is centuries in advance of the physiologist. -- Roger Bannister p The human brain has figured out a lot about how it works. -- Tom Siegfreid p The human mind seeks to resolve internal conflict, even by false means. p The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Twain p The human soul is not satisfied by worldly things. -- Oren Lyons p The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest. p The idle mind knows not what it is it wants. -- Quintus Ennius p The important is seldom urgent; the urgent is seldom important. -- Eisenhower p The important thing is not to stop questioning. p The impossible is what no one can do until someone does. p The Indian discovered the white man in 1492. -- Stan Freberg p The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. -- Edward Abbey p The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. -- Edward Abbey p The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. -- Edward Abbey p The infinite player does not die at the end of play, but in the course of play. p The ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. p The job is to finish the journey in one lifetime. -- Ram Dass p The journey in this lifetime is about how to plug your spirit in with wisdom. p The joyfulness of infinite play... Learning to start something we cannot finish. p The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. p The laborer is worthy of his hire. -- New Testament p The last Christian died on a cross. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p The last drop makes the cup run over. p The last regret is usually the worst. p The last thing one discovers in writing a book is what to put first. -- Pascal p The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away. p The law has for its end not justice but peace. -- Thomas McKeown p The law is not the same at morning and at night. -- George Herbert p The laws of physics always override the laws of economics. -- Dan Holohan p The leader is the slave of history. -- Leo Tolstoi p The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. -- Paul Broca p The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. p The less between you and nature, the more you appreciate nature. -- Fletcher p The less I speak, the more I meditate. -- Kyd p The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. -- Chesterfield p The less you have to do, the less time you find to do it in. p The license never belongs to the licensed, nor the commission to the officer. p The life which is unexamined is not worth living. -- Plato p The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon. p The limits of cheap equipment will be tested by the weather. p The limits of our rational mind are becoming more apparent sooner. -- Ram Dass p The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. -- Sacha Guitry p The longer we live, the more wonders we see. -- James Kelly p The longer you keep your temper the better it will get. p The longer you look at it the less you will like it. p The longest part of the journey is the passing of the gate. p The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. -- George Herbert p The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred. -- Fuller p The love that's too violent will not last long. -- James Kelly p The lure of the marvelous blunts our critical faculties. -- Carl Sagan p The magic of the unknown path is, it's not contaminated by your expectations. p The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. -- Stephen Covey p The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. -- Albert Einstein p The man at the top of the mountain didn't fall there. -- Vince Lombardi p The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. -- Ralph Emerson p The man who has never been flogged has never been taught. -- Menander p The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. -- H. G. Wells p The man who runs may fight again. -- Menander p The man who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. p The map is not the territory. p The mark of adulthood is postponing gratification. p The master's eye makes the horse fat. -- Plutarch p The meaning of life is to pick one. -- Stephen Glover p The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. p The meaning of your communication is the response that you get. p The measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without. -- L. M. Montgomery p The medicine, the more bitter it is, the more better it is in working. -- Lyly p The medium is the message. -- Marshall McLuhan p The meek shall inherit the Earth. The bold shall inherit the stars. p The mere imparting of information is not education. -- Carter Woodson p The mind has no power at all without the heart. -- Carolyn Myss p The mind is a terrible master and a wonderful servant. -- Ram Dass p The mind is an erogenous zone. -- J. D. Salinger p The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch p The mind... in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. -- Milton p The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't. -- Leacock p The minute I need something from you, I'm setting myself up for unhappiness. p The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. -- Murray p The money you refuse will never do you good. -- Mapletoft p The Moon is not a destination -- it is a direction. -- Mike Collins, astronaut p The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. -- Edward Abbey p The more easily you get your wealth, the sooner you will lose it. -- Solomon p The more energetically clear we get, the more honest we must become. -- Carolyn Myss p The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. p The more humble the more honorable. -- Clarke p The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed. -- Ray Kroc p The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -- Richard Bach p The more light a torch gives, the shorter it lasts. -- Fuller p The more noble, the more humble. -- Thomas Draxe p The more of anything, the less the value of every such thing. -- Alan Silverstein p The more one has, the more one desires. -- Torriano p The more people talk on the phone, the less money they make. p The more the merrier. -- Confucius p The more there's in it, the more there's of it. -- Jonathan Swift p The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. -- Bernard Shaw p The more urgency dominates your life, the more importance does not. -- Covey p The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right. p The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. p The more you know, the less you think you know. p The more you know, the more it hurts. -- Old Testament p The more you learn, the less you know. p The more you say, the less people remember. p The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. p The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. p The mosquito exists to keep the mighty humble. -- Alan Silverstein p The most asked question in the world: "What will 'they' say?" -- Carolyn Myss p The most dangerous animals in the woods have six legs. -- Len McDougall p The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. -- Anne Lindberg p The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. -- Paine p The most generous gift relieves the recipient of the debt of gratitude. p The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise. p The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. p The most important things are hardest to say, because words diminish them. p The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. p The most powerful forms of giving are non-material. -- Deepak Chopra p The most serious struggles are those for sexual property. -- James Carse p The most solid stone is the lowest one in the foundation. p The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. p The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on. p The nearer to the church, the further from God. -- John Heywood p The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. p The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. p The night rinses what the day has soaped. p The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war. -- Edward Abbey p The obstacle is the way. -- Marcus Aurelius p The obvious answer is always overlooked. -- Whitehead p The office is designed for "work", not productivity. -- Scott Adams p The old are preoccupied with their pains, the young with their passions. p The old fellows stole all our good ideas. -- Fred Goudy p The old men do not grow wise. They grow careful. -- Ernest Hemingway p The older you get, the more you need people who knew you when you were young. p The only absolute attainable knowledge is that life is meaningless. -- Tolstoy p The only certainty is that nothing is certain. -- Pliny the Elder p The only decent thing to do behind a person's back is pat it. p The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. p The only feeling warmer than friendship is that of an old love. p The only food for thought is more thought. -- Peter Ustinov p The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race. p The only monsters in the wilderness are those you brought with you. -- McDougall p The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. -- Sassoon p The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane. -- Phaedrus p The only relationship you're guaranteed to be in is the one with yourself. p The only reliable information in a newspaper is the date. p The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Emerson p The only successful substitute for brains is silence. -- Herbert Prochnow p The only thing constant is change. p The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. p The only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -- Aldous Huxley p The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. -- MacDonald p The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -- Franklin Roosevelt p The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde p The only time you can coast in life is when you're going downhill. -- Merrill p The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. -- Hervey Allen p The only valid market survey is a signed purchase order. p The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. p The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Frank Hubbard p The only way to get the best on an argument is to avoid it. -- Dale Carnegie p The only way to have a good relationship is to never, never compromise. -- Coit p The only way to learn is by changing your mind. -- Orson Scott Card p The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. -- Solomon Short p The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Neils Bohr p The opposite of addiction is not sobriety; it is human connection. -- Johann Hari p The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist, the hole. -- Wilson p The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice. -- Fuller p The output of engineers is specifications, not products. -- Mickey Smith p The oxen are slow, but the Earth is patient. p The pain passes but the beauty remains. -- Auguste Renoir p The passive voice should never be used. -- William Safire p The past always looks better in the present. p The past is history, the future is mystery, and the present is a gift. p The path of valor leads but to the grave. p The path to the future lies through the corpus callosum. -- Carl Sagan p The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Leng-Tzu p The person who steals an egg will steal a chicken. -- H. Jackson Brown p The person who would know has got to make love with the unknown. -- Ram Dass p The philosopher exists like the saint, only as an ideal. -- William Dilthey p The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next. -- Osler p The place where we do our scientific work is a place of prayer. -- Needham p The plural of anecdote is not data. p The plural of spouse is spice. p The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often. p The power of love overcomes the love of power. -- Glennon Doyle p The power to license is the power to deny. p The power to tax involves the power to destroy. -- John Marshall p The present time has one advantage over every other. It is our own. -- Colton p The press of evolution on man's consciousness is inevitable. -- Ram Dass p The prevailing view of aging is that we essentially rust to death. -- Shulman p The price of greatness is responsibility. p The prince of darkness is a gentleman. -- William Shakespeare p The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know. -- Nassim Taleb p The proof of the pudding is in the eating. -- Miguel de Cervantes p The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. p The public is an untrustworthy animal. -- John MacDonald p The Public is merely a multiplied "me". -- Mark Twain p The purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. -- Spock p The purpose of property is to make our titles visible. -- James Carse p The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us. p The quality of the answer is proportional to the quality of the question. p The quest for success and the quest for truth do not mix well. -- Kurt Eissler p The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listens? -- God? p The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. -- Mary Schmich p The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. p The real evil of old age is not the body's decline, but the soul's indifference. p The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Lichtenburg p The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. p The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. -- Ralph Emerson p The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson p The reward of love is jealousy. -- Fuller p The rich man may dine when he will, the poor man when he may. -- Erasmus p The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. p The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. p The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. -- Douglas p The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. -- Justice William Douglas p The ripest fruit falls first. p The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- Leng-Tzu p The root purpose of government is to enable public goods. p The rules of an infinite game must change in the course of play. -- James Carse p The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once. p The saint must be believed even when he tells the lie. p The salvation of man is through love and in love. -- Viktor Frankl p The same knife cuts bread and fingers. p The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer. -- Benjamin Franklin p The school of life is a compulsory education. p The scriptures are books that offer instruction on the management of power. p The sea refuses no river. -- Lyly p The secret to being a successful investor is that there really is no secret. -- Bill McNabb, Vanguard CEO p The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. p The shadow side of the mind is that you are susceptible to illusion. -- Carolyn Myss p The sharper the storm, the sooner it's over. p The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. p The shortest answer is doing. -- George Herbert p The shortest distance between two people is a smile. -- Peter Chantilis p The sickness of the body may prove the health of the soul. -- J. Hewes p The silliest response to someone threatening you is to hurt yourself. -- Tom von Alten p The sky is no longer the limit. -- Richard Nixon p The sleepy fox has seldom feathered breakfasts. p The smallest of good deeds exceeds the greatest of good intentions. p The society that creates natural waste creates human waste. -- James Carse p The solace and comfort that religion brings actually comes at a terrible price. -- Bill Maher p The sole thing achieved by any privacy law is to make the bugs smaller. p The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. -- Peer p The sooner the better. p The sooner you die, the longer you're dead. -- John Quill Taylor p The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves. p The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. -- Paulo Coelho p The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. p The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong. -- Emerson p The speed of anything depends on the flow of everything. p The speed of light is defined to be EXACTLY 299,792,458 meters per second. p The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. -- New Testament p The squeaky wheel gets the grease. p The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. p The strong live off the weak, and the smart live off the strong. p The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. -- Henrik Ibsen p The sun knows no shadows. -- John Taylor p The sun never sets on those who ride into it. -- RKO Radio p The sun shines upon all alike. p The sun will set without thy assistance. -- Talmud p The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. -- Ursula LeGuin p The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire p The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity. -- Unamuno p The surest protection against temptation is cowardice. -- Mark Twain p The sweetest water is in deepest wells. -- Sir John Beaumont p The tactful way to say "wrong" is: "That turns out not to be the case." p The tailor makes the man. -- Erasmus p The task he undertakes is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry. -- William Shakespeare p The task of an educator should be to irrigate the desert, not clear the forest. p The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. -- Logan Smith p The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a thief. -- Fuller p The thin end of the wedge is to be feared. p The thing is that you can tune yourself. -- Ram Dass p The three best ways to get where you want to go are: Persist, persist, persist. p The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. p The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. p The time to retire is when you have enough, and have had enough. p The tongue is more venomous than a serpent's sting. p The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. p The tragedy of man is what dies inside himself while he still lives. p The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. -- Wilde p The training for dying is exactly what the training for living is. -- Ram Dass p The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou p The tribe determines your relationship to reality... and therefore to guidance. p The true power of the universe you can BE but you cannot have. -- Ram Dass p The truth a man accepts most willingly is the one he desires. -- Francis Bacon p The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. -- Malraux p The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright p The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -- Oscar Wilde p The truth is that the truth is not always true. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p The truth shows best being naked. p The truth... is the funniest joke in the world. -- Muhammad Ali p The Turing test does not consider that we humans are gullible by nature. -- Cade Metz p The ultimate sin of any celebrity is to be boring. -- Bo Curry p The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced. -- Frank Zappa p The universe is a school of hard knocks for the soul. p The universe is hard to comprehend because there is nothing to compare it with. p The universe is populated by stable things. -- Richard Dawkins p The universe is the projection of your desires. -- Ram Dass p The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -- Carl Sagan p The unknown always passes for the marvelous. -- Tacitus p The unlived life is not worth examining. -- Guy Kawasaki p The use of a quotation is the admission of inadequacy. -- Samuel Coleridge p The used key is always bright. p The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. p The victory is not in winning but in the courage to enter the race. p The voice is the best music. -- Breton p The water flows, but the river stays. -- John Taylor p The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. -- Howe p The way out is never as easy as the way in. p The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. p The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. p The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. -- W. Gibbs p The will to do, the soul to dare. -- Sir Walter Scott p The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare. -- Juma Ikangaa p The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. -- Reggie Jackson p The wind has no home, and its only clothes are tree branches. -- Matthew Barry p The Winds of Grace are blowing perpetually, we need only raise our sails. p The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. p The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf. p The wiser you are, the more worries you have. -- Old Testament p The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his memory. -- Thomas Draxe p The word "dog" does not bite. -- William James p The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow THAT pill! -- Edward Abbey p The world has no lack of incredibly stupid people. p The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -- Charles Kettering p The world is a madhouse, so it's right that it's patrolled by armed idiots. p The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. -- Oscar Wilde p The world is basically composed of C- students. -- Donald Wiesner p The world is full of cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. -- Will Foley p The world is in danger from two sources: Order and Disorder. -- Valery p The world is too complex for us. Evolution didn't keep up. -- Scott Adams p The world must be made safe for democracy. -- Woodrow Wilson p The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain p The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people. p The world wants to be deceived. -- Sebastian Brant p The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. -- George Shaw p The worst form of failure is the failure to try. p The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst." -- King Lear p The worst thing about new books is, they keep us from reading the old ones. p The worst year in the bond market beats the worst day in the stock market. p The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. -- Socrates p Them that has, gets. p Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green. -- Johann von Goethe p There ain't no justice that we can stand to live with. -- Geis p There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. p There are about 550 hairs in the average eyebrow. p There are as many realities as you care to imagine. -- Lawrence Durrell p There are but few men who have character enough to lead a life of idleness. p There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. p There are lots of ways to get wealthy. Don't constrain yourself. -- Scott Adams p There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all oceans. p There are more bacteria cells than human cells in a human body. p There are more Italians in New York City than in Rome. p There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. p There are more stars in space than grains of sand on every beach on Earth. p There are more underdogs in the world than there are favorites. -- Joe Namath p There are more ways into the woods than out. p There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. p There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. -- George Carlin p There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe. -- Ram Dass p There are no answers, only cross-references. -- Weiner p There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. -- William Bennett p There are no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas Edison p There are no victims in the universe, only creators. -- Conversations with God p There are no victims, only volunteers. -- Eleanor Roosevelt p There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots. p There are periods of going out and there are periods of turning back in. -- Dass p There are some things one would rather HAVE DONE than DO. -- Edward Abbey p There are stages in your development where you need a guru. -- Ram Dass p There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics. -- Disraeli p There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player. -- Bobby Fischer p There are two sides to every question. -- J. Ralph p There are two types of pain in life: Regret, and discipline... Take your pick. p There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any. -- Carl Sagan p There exist tasks that cannot be done by more than 10 people or fewer than 100. p There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey p There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. -- Leonard Cohen p There is a difference between eating and dining. -- Doug Quarnstrom p There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. -- Blaise Pascal p There is a great deal of art to creating something that seems artless. -- Asimov p There is a huge gap between advice and help. p There is a kind of poetry in simple fact. -- Edward Abbey p There is a lot to be said for not saying a lot. p There is a remedy for all things but death. p There is a time for all things. p There is a time of speaking and a time of being still. -- William Caxton p There is always a wrong way to do something right. -- Christer Sundqvist p There is always an easier way to do it. p There is always someone better off than yourself. p There is always someone worse off than yourself. p There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. -- Anne Swetchine p There is an X factor in the dynamic of creation when energy becomes matter. p There is danger in delaying, good fortune in acting. p There is great force hidden in a sweet command. p There is hopeful symbolism in... that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -- Clarke p There is more pride in the refusal of an honor than in its acceptance. p There is more talk than trouble. -- Bretnor p There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mohandas Gandhi p There is more to life than just avoiding death. -- Jeff Hummel p There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over. p There is no battle worth the winning save that against ignorance and fear. p There is no better surgeon than one with many scars. p There is no bottom to worse. -- Cohen p There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. -- Santayana p There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love. p There is no end to the writing of books, and too much study will wear you out. p There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. p There is no fool to the old fool. -- John Heywood p There is no grief that time does not lessen and soften. p There is no heavier burden than a great potential. p There is no immaculate conception of disaster. -- Aneurin Bevan p There is no key to the Universe, but it has been left unlocked. -- Steve Bhaerman p There is no law that vulgarity and literary excellence cannot coexist. -- Hodge p There is no love like the first. -- Howell p There is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Chesterson p There is no ox so dumb as the orthodox. -- George Gillette p There is no place like home. -- Dufferin p There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -Dr. Who p There is no possibility of conversation with a loudspeaker. -- James Carse p There is no reasoning with a righteous mind. -- Marcia McConnell Ranch p There is no right way to do something wrong. p There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid p There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. p There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. -- James Thurber p There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. -- Shaw p There is no science without fancy and no art without facts. -- Vladimir Nabokov p There is no security on this Earth. There is only opportunity. -- MacArthur p There is no sin except stupidity. -- Oscar Wilde p There is no statute of limitations on stupidity. p There is no successful standard that has preceded a successful product. p There is no such thing as a context-free message. p There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. -- Oscar Wilde p There is no such thing as a short-term victory for the environment. -- Sawhill p There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. p There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. -- Edward Abbey p There is no universal diet suitable for everyone. p There is no use in crying over spilled milk. p There is no use in having a dog and doing your own barking. p There is no virtue that poverty destroys not. p There is no way to erase the unwritten law. p There is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. -- Russell p There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. -- Swift p There is nothing more restful than taking orders from fools. p There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. -- Marie Antoinette p There is nothing new under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 p There is nothing so easy that it becomes difficult when done with reluctance. p There is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her. p There is only one way to kill capitalism: By taxes, taxes, and more taxes. p There is only one way to treat a cold, and that is with contempt. -- Osler p There is pain in getting, care in keeping, and grief in losing riches. -- Draxe p There is reason in all things. p There is safety in anonymity. -- Alan Silverstein p There is small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare p There is too much beauty upon this Earth for lonely men to bear. -- Le Gallienne p There is unmanifest and manifest and it's all right here now. -- Ram Dass p There may be many reasons for who we are, but there are no excuses. -- Will Limon p There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin p There never was a good war or a bad revolution. -- Edward Abbey p There really is a Santa Claus... If you're willing to accept the job. p There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C. S. Lewis p There will be sleeping enough in the grave. -- Benjamin Franklin p There would be no great ones if there were no little ones. p There's a fine line between an attitude problem and thinking clearly. -- Heller p There's a great deal of difference between doing and saying. -- Torriano p There's a point at which "being early" becomes "being wrong." -- John Waggoner p There's a type of pride that can be rooted in humility. -- Kevin Fedarko p There's a verse in the Bible that says anything you want. p There's a whole WORLD in a mud puddle! -- Doug Clifford p There's never a bad time to buy stocks, but there are bad times to sell. p There's no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. -- Ronald Reagan p There's nothing like matter of fact; seeing is believing. -- Abruthnot p Therefore love moderately; long love does so. -- William Shakespeare p These days the gods deliver their lessons by burning up mountains of money. p These little things are great to little men. -- Oliver Goldsmith p They all sweated beneath the same sun; looked up in wonder at the same moon. p They also serve who only stand and wait. -- John Milton p They die well that live well. -- Thomas Draxe p They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. p They love dancing well that dance among thorns. -- Camden p They love too much that die for love. -- Cotgrave p They must have the defects of their qualities. -- Balzac p They never love us, whom we mistrust. -- Clarke p They talk most who have the least to say. -- Matthew Prior p They that live longest, must die at last. -- Thomas Draxe p They who love most are least set by. -- Howell p They're so heavenly minded that they're no earthly good. p Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus p Things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. -- Frankl p Things do not change; we change. -- Thoreau p Things get worse under pressure. p Things present are judged by things past. -- Sanford p Think globally; act locally. -- Rene Dubos p Think it through, then follow through. -- Rickenbacker p Think on the end before you begin. p Think twice of a good bargain. -- Edgeworth p Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. -- Plato p Thinking is very far from knowing. -- Stevens p Thinking is wise, planning is better, doing is best. p This is the beginning of the end. -- Talleyrand p This is to be taken with a grain of salt. -- Trapp p This nuclear arms race... [will only] make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill p This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't. -- Hofstadter p This sentence does not have the property it claims not to have. -- Boeninger p This statement is unprovable. -- Goedel p This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare p This world might be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got. p Those making the worst use of their time are first to complain of its brevity. p Those sensible enough to give good advice are sensible enough to give none. p Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. -- Fuller p Those were the days when men were men and giants walked the earth. p Those who are not busy being born are busy dying. p Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life. -- Solomon p Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire p Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire p Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -- George Shaw p Those who cannot forget the past are condemned to remember it. -- Goodman Ace p Those who desire eternal life, live badly. -- Pubililius Syrus p Those who do not know how to fight worry die young. -- Dale Carnegie p Those who do the most usually demand the least. p Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. -- Edward Abbey p Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd. -- John Maxwell p Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. p Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it. -- Santayana p Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. p Those who stand in the middle of the road get hit by traffic going both ways. p Those who talk don't know. Those who don't talk, know. p Those who think religion is about belief don't understand religion or belief. -- Nassim Taleb p Those who work much do not work hard. -- Henry Thoreau p Those who worked the hardest are the last to surrender. -- Gary Ward p Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. -- unknown Urdu Poet p Thou has not half the power to do me harm, as I have to be hurt. p Thou hast seen nothing yet. -- Miguel de Cervantes p Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. p Though the fox run, the chicken has wings. -- George Herbert p Thought is free. -- Gower p Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. -- Trollope p Three thermodynamics laws: You can't win, break even, or get out of the game. p Throw it away? There is no away. p Time ain't money when all you got is time. p Time and tide wait for no man. p Time and truth try all. -- Porter p Time as he grows old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus p Time consumes all things. p Time emerges from a world without time. -- Carlo Rovelli p Time flies when you're having fun. p Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, WE go. -- Austin Dobson p Time in the market beats timing the market. p Time is a flexible and renewable resource. p Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry Thoreau p Time is money. p Time is often said to be money, but it is more: It is life. -- Avebury p Time is the best healer, when it isn't a killer. -- D H Lawrence p Time is the best healer. p Time is the father of truth. p Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. -- Theophrastus p Time is the rider that breaks youth. -- George Herbert p Time is very dangerous without a rigid routine. -- Flannery O'Connor p Time is, time was, and time is past. -- Greene p Time reveals all things. -- Erasmus p Time stays not the fool's leisure. -- Cotgrave p Time tries truth. p Time undermines us. -- George Herbert p Time will not tell. -- Steve Hug p Time works wonders. p Time wounds all heels. -- Jane Ace p Timely blossom, timely ripe. -- Clarke p Times change and we with them. p To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. p To an artist, a metaphor is as real as a dollar. -- Tom Robbins p To ask is not a crime. To be rejected is not a calamity. -- Chinese proverb p To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -- Aristotle p To avoid earthquakes, when you find a fault, just don't dwell on it. -- Bhaerman p To avoid sickness, eat less. To prolong life, worry less. -- Chu Hui Weng p To be a fool at the right time is also an art. p To be adult is to be alone. -- Jean Rostland p To be alive at all involves some risk. -- Harold MacMillan p To be at home everywhere is to neutralize space. -- James Carse p To be beloved is above all bargains. -- George Herbert p To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Emerson p To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. -- Alcott p To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. p To be is to be related. -- C. J. Keyser p To be miserable you must have leisure to wonder if you are happy or not. -- Shaw p To be powerful is to have one's words obeyed. -- James Carse p To be remembered, write things worth reading or do things worth writing. p To be wise, the only thing you need to know is when to say "I don't know." p To be, never try to seem. p To become outstanding, one must be an outsider. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p To care for the future is to live well in the present. -- E O Wilson p To climb the ladder of success you must get through the crowd at the bottom. p To communicate is the beginning of understanding. -- AT&T p To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell p To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. -- El Cid p To convince someone they are wrong, let them have their way. p To criticize the incompetent is easy; to criticize the competent is harder. p To defend the Saigon regime is not worth one more human life. -- Senator Muskie p To deny the Constitution is to provoke revolution. p To die tomorrow is no worse than dying on any other day. -- Paulo Coelho p To do nothing is in every man's power. p To do the impossible, you must see the invisible. -- Murdock p To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus p To double your joy, divide it with someone. p To double your misery, divide it with your neighbor. -- Christer Sundqvist p To endure what is unendurable is true endurance. -- Japanese proverb p To every rule there is a exception, and vice versa. p To experience the elements, you must get out of the vehicle. p To extend your limits, you must push them... And it often hurts. p To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end. -- Albert Camus p To fight your karma is just as frustrating as to accept your karma. -- Deepak Chopra p To follow another is evil; it does not matter who it is. -- Krishnamurti p To fright a bird is not the way to catch it. p To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies. -- Oscar Wilde p To give happiness is to deserve happiness. p To have a crisis is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another. p To have died once is enough. p To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the Lord. -- Solomon p To him that has lost his taste, sweet is sour. p To him who is in fear, everything rustles. -- Sophocles p To improve averages, focus on the worst. -- Tomoo Matsubara p To improve people's behaviors, change their pictures of their roles. -- Covey p To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison p To invoke randomness is to plead ignorance. -- Nassim Taleb p To keep your friends, treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often. p To keep your life simple, keep your needs simple. p To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. p To lead people, you must follow behind. -- Lao Tsu p To light a candle is to cast a shadow. p To live dishonestly costs you biologically. -- Carolyn Myss p To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. -- Allport p To live off a garden you practically must live in it. p To look at a painting, many things are needed, and the first of them is a chair. p To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. p To love is wise; to hate is foolish. -- Bertrand Russell p To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. -- Oscar Wilde p To make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical. -- Richard Feynman p To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan p To make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt. -- Donald Sadoway p To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. -- St. Augustine p To me, faith is not just a noun but also a verb. -- President Jimmy Carter p To Mother Nature, you are just self-propelled carrion. -- Kenneth Rowberry p To profit from good advice requires as much wisdom as to give it. p To promise and give nothing is comfort to a fool. -- Thomas Draxe p To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. -- Paulo Coelho p To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. p To regret nothing is the beginning of wisdom. p To remember is to take the body time-traveling. -- Deepak Chopra p To retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent. -- Covey p To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. p To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse. p To see God clearly, all illusion must fail you. -- Carolyn Myss p To stay youthful, stay useful. p To strive, to seek, and not to yield. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson p To succeed one must have access to success. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert p To the landlords belong the doorknobs. p To the man with an empty stomach, food is God. -- Mohandas Gandhi p To them it is us who are the enemy. -- N. F. Simpson p To thine own self be true. p To those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know. p To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves. -- Krishnamurti p To travel hopefully is better than to arrive safely. -- Robert Stevenson p To use the machine for control is to be controlled by the machine. -- James Carse p To use violence is to already be defeated. -- Chinese proverb p To your employer, are you profit or overhead? p Today is the first day of the rest of your life. -- Birgitta Yavari p Today is the scholar of yesterday. p Today is what yesterday made it. p Tolerance requires intolerance of those who preach intolerance. -- Danny Low p Tomorrow never comes. p Tomorrow, you can be anywhere. p Too bad ignorance isn't painful. p Too busy to laugh? Then you are too busy. p Too clever is dumb. -- Ogden Nash p Too far east is west. p Too many cooks spoil the broth. -- Kingsley p Too much liberty spoils all. p Too much money makes one mad. -- Howell p Too much of one thing is not good. p Too much of ought is good for nought. p Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -- John F Kennedy p Tradition does not mean to guard the ashes, but to keep the flame burning. p Tragedy is a joke we haven't figured out yet. -- Garrison Keillor p Tragedy is learning the wrong thing from a fiasco. p Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical. -- Nassim Taleb p Travelers change climates, not conditions. p Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend. -- Solomon p Treat words as if they were diamonds, and scatter them sparingly. -- Pauline Phillips p Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus p Trees must be distinguished from the forest -- even if there is but one tree. p Tribal permission lets you not take responsibility for where your energy goes. p Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom. p Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing. p True greatness is rarely achieved without collateral damage. -- James Tabor p True happiness will be found only in true love. p True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain. -- Bernard p True storytellers do not know their own story. -- James Carse p True success is the experience of the miraculous. -- Deepak Chopra p True wealth is free time: Freedom from drudgery and unwanted commitments. -- Daniel Newman p Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine p Trust everyone... Then cut the cards. p Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian proverb p Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. p Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -- Francis Bacon p Truth fears no trial. p Truth is a matching grant. -- Carolyn Myss p Truth is hard to find and even harder to obscure. p Truth is just truth. You can't have opinions about truth. -- P. Shickele p Truth is only believed when someone has invented it well. -- George Santayana p Truth is stranger than fiction. p Truth is the highest form of human motivation. -- Stephen Covey p Truth may be lost in a crowd. -- Wilson p Truth might be blamed, but cannot be shamed. p Truth will come to light. -- William Shakespeare p Truth's best ornament is nakedness. -- Fuller p Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -- Oscar Wilde p Truths and roses have thorns about them. -- Mapletoft p Truths too fine spun are subtle fooleries. -- Mapletoft p Try always all ways. -- Gerhard Uhlenbruck p Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value. -- Albert Einstein p Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. -- est p Try to forget everything. What you can't forget -- that's what you learned. p Try to have a rational conversation with someone who's in love. p Try to imagine what life would be like without bureaucracy. p Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant p Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -- Alan Watts p Trying to have too much fun is self-defeating. -- Alan Silverstein p Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. -- Shana Alexander p Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them. -- H. Jackson Brown p TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright p Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. -- Ansel Adams p Two captains will sink the ship. p Two eyes can see more than one. p Two feet on the ground are worth one in the mouth. p Two fools in one house are too many. p Two heads are better than one. p Two is company, three's a crowd. -- Leng-Tzu p Two marks of a holy person: Giving, and forgiving. p Two mediocre ideas do not add up to one great idea. p Two men look out through the same bars; one sees mud, and one the stars. p Two most important days in your life: Day you're born, and day you find out why. p Two of a trade seldom agree. p Two things do prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife. -- Deloney p Two wrongs don't make a right. p Ultimately, everything becomes food. -- John Taylor p Unconditional love means the capacity to not have private agendas. -- Carolyn Myss p Uncontrolled anger is an athlete's worst enemy. -- Reggie Rivers p Under a dictatorship, everything that is not forbidden is obligatory. p Under every stone sleeps a scorpion. -- Taverner p Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. -- Bertolt Brecht p Unless women share sexual risk taking, they cause their own objectification. p Unrepeatability is a characteristic of culture everywhere. -- James Carse p Use it or lose it. p Use makes mastery. -- Taverner p Use the mind to obtain wisdom, not the power to control. -- Carolyn Myss p Use the simplest solution that suffices. p Using drugs is an attempt to make up for the good times that one hasn't had. p Values and beliefs make perfect sense to the people who hold them. p Values are caught, not taught. -- Dobson p Variety is the spice of life, but monotony buys the groceries. p Variety is the spice of life. -- Confucius p Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) -- Julius Caesar p Veni, Vidi, Visa. (I came, I saw, I bought.) p Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars. p Victims see what is; survivalists see what can be. -- Len McDougall p Victory lies not in sleep's defeat. -- John Taylor p Vincit qui patitur: He conquers, who endures. -- Percy Cerutty p Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Salvador Hardin p Virtue is its own revenge. -- E. Y. Harburg p Virtue is its own reward. -- John Dryden p Virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas Paine p Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. p Virtue is the beauty of the mind. p Virtue is the only true nobility. p Virtue never grows old. p Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. -- Herbert Spencer p Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. -- Pericles p Wake not a sleeping wolf. -- William Shakespeare p Wake up each day saying "Good morning, God", not "Good God, morning!" p Walk softly and carry a big stick. p Walls have ears. -- Shelton p Want to forget all your troubles? Wear tight shoes. p War does not determine who is right... Only who is left. p War hath no fury like a non-combatant. -- Charles Montague p War is an equal opportunity destroyer. p War is death's feast. p War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals. -- Clemenceau p War is soon begun, but not so quickly brought to an end. p War is terrorism with a bigger budget. p War is the last refuge of incompetent statesmen. p War is the real enemy. p War makes thieves, and peace hangs them. p War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon p War, hunting, and love, are as full of trouble as pleasure. -- Buckminster Fuller p Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. -- Ellie Katz p Wars bring scars. -- Clarke p Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. -- James Carse p Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides p Wasting time is an important part of life. -- Ashleigh Brilliant p We all do murder the things we love, mostly by the word unsaid. -- William Etkin p We all have a story to live. What story are you living? -- Greg Rose p We all have style, but few have class. p We all know what you mean; it's just that you mean it so poorly. -- John Taylor p We all like our relatives when we're little. -- Kin Hubbard p We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis p We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. p We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett p We are all directly above the center of the earth. p We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Wilde p We are all in the same boat, shooting holes in the hull. -- David Grinspoon p We are all in this alone. -- Lily Tomlin p We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree -- but one WHAT? -- Edward Abbey p We are all volunteers. -- Pat Czarnik p We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Winston Churchill p We are always looking, or should be, for what really inspires us. -- Peter Tyson p We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. -- Ray Bradbury p We are anthill men upon an anthill world. -- Ray Bradbury p We ARE as gods and might as well get good at it. -- Whole Earth Catalog p We are as organized energetically as we are physically. -- Carolyn Myss p We are becoming a nation of private opulence and public squalor. p We are being educated when we know it least. -- David Gardner p We are born dying. -- Caleb Finch (scientist) p We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly p We are divinity in disguise. -- Deepak Chopra p We are drowning in information. -- EO Wilson p We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. -- Oscar Wilde p We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -- Dwight Eisenhower p We are here on earth to fart around; don't let anybody tell you any different. p We are here to let go of that which we are not. p We are how the universe I's itself. -- Alan Watts p We are in fact mystics without monasteries. -- Carolyn Myss p We are known by the company we keep. p We are loved in spite of what we are. -- Victor Hugo p We are not alone. p We are not here for a long time. We are here for a good time. p We are not humans on a spiritual path, rather we are spirits on a human path. p We are not meant to mourn our traumas for more than a short time. -- Carolyn Myss p We are not punished for our sins, but by them. p We are not victims of the world we see, but of the way we see the world. p We are old enough to be wiser. -- John Wesley p We are only now beginning to recognize we need to learn to love unconditionally. p We are seeing the empowerment of the individual to conduct war. -- John Robb p We are social animals; hell is other people. -- Nassim Taleb p We are the sum of all the lives we once lived. p We are what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. p We are who we are in relating to others. -- James Carse p We avoid attributing cleverness to someone else -- unless it is an enemy. p We become what we do. p We believe some things because they make us look good to people we care about. -- Michael Kitces p We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yates p We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Von Braun p We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbors. -- James Kelly p We can only hate in others what we first hate in ourselves. -- John Taylor p We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. p We can only write well of that which we know. -- John Taylor p We can't break the real spiritual laws. -- Lee Coit p We can't change, but we can expand. -- Nelson p We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -- Coolidge p We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. -- Bruyere p We define genius as constructive reaction against one's training. -- Berenson p We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count. -- Emerson p We do not remember days; we remember moments. p We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. -- Nassim Taleb p We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. -- Baroness Stocks p We don't even understand in the West what it means to train consciousness. p We don't get perspective on what's close to us until we spend time away from it. -- Mark Manson p We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -- Thomas Edison p We don't know how to give gifts of energy -- we still give gifts of matter. p We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish. -- Barlow p We don't recognize the significant events in our lives while they're happening. p We don't stop hiking because we grow old, we grow old because we stop hiking. p We don't value our ignorance enough. -- Alan Alda p We don't want God to be a wild force. -- Carolyn Myss p We dwell at the bottom of the sky. p We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. -- Scott Adams p We get too soon old and too late smart. p We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. -- Rochefoucauld p We have all the land now we will ever have. -- Orville Freeman p We have art that we do not die of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p We have global influence but lack global control. -- David Grinspoon p We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean. -- Carl Sagan p We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Walt Kelly p We have nothing to fear but our own inertia. -- Rich Lamb p We have nowhere else to go... This is all we have. -- Margaret Mead p We have to walk as slow as our slowest person to keep society f*ing moving. -- Jim Jeffries p We laugh at death because we know death will have the last laugh on us. -- Lou Grant (Mary Tyler Moore show) p We live in a global village but it is filled with neighbors from hell. -- Low p We love others the way we would like them to love us. p We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill p We may love a place and still be dangerous to it. -- Wallace Stegner p We may make our plans, but God has the last word. -- Solomon p We might be alone. We might not be alone. Either way the idea is staggering. p We must choose: The stars or the dust. Which shall it be? p We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. p We need less emotion and more thought. -- Richard Dawkins p We need to look at multiple lives to test and shape our own. -- Mary Bateson p We never find out anything new, we just remember it. -- Ram Dass p We not only live in a cage, we build the cage, and live in a corner of it. p We ought not to permit a cottage industry in the God business. -- John Marchi p We owe it to ourselves to question everything. p We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all. p We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. p We promise more in a day than we can fulfill in a year. p We promise what we want, but deliver what we got before. p We really want to save the wilderness because the wilderness really saves us. -- Brooke Williams p We reclaim what we love by being activists on its behalf. -- Marc Salkin p We remember our dreams; we do not remember our sleep. -- Marguerite Yourgenar p We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydides p We see only what we know. -- Johann von Goethe p We see things not as they are, but as we are. p We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Bruyere p We set up relationships initially on the basis of false advertising. -- Coit p We should learn from our mistakes, but how... Unless we first admit we made any? -- Tavris and Aronson p We take issue even with perfection. -- Pascal p We take on the strength of that which we overcome. p We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone. -- Katie Thurmes p We teach others how to treat us. -- Wayne Dyer p We that are young shall never see so much nor live so long. -- William Shakespeare p We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it. -- Sangharakshita p We use machines against ourselves... And machinery against itself. -- James Carse p We usually get what we order from life. -- Will Limon p We want God to be a mental, logical force because that feels so controllable. p We will be asked to do something we can't tolerate just to develop endurance. p We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out. p We would like to train for wisdom, not knowledge. -- Ram Dass p We would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -- Norman Peale p We're all open parentheticals, waiting for the close parenthesis to come. -- Emily VanDerWerff p We're motivated to seek rewards; this urge exceeds our pleasure in getting them. p We, all of us, have a vested interest in keeping the game going. -- God? p Wealth comes from excellence, and not excellence from wealth. -- Plato p Wealth goes to wealth. -- Torriano p Wealth is not so much possessed as it is performed. -- James Carse p Wealth protects the rich; poverty destroys the poor. -- Solomon p Wealthy is having the freedom to maximize one's life experiences. -- Mark Manson p Weapon: An index of the lack of development of a culture. p Welcome to the Future! It's just starting now ... p Well begun is half done. -- Aristotle p Well done is better than well said. p Well, one must get an idea someplace. -- Stephen Hawking p Were Heaven preferable to Earth, suicide would be a sacrament. -- William Wall p What a joy it is to find just the right word for the right occasion! -- Solomon p What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. -- WOPR (War Games) p What are we doing? Nothing. -- Ram Dass p What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? -- Leopold p What awful irony is this? We are as gods, but know it not. p What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens p What cannot be cured must be endured. p What changes can you personally make to get the results you want? p What color is a chameleon on a mirror? p What confounds a society is not serious opposition, but lack of seriousness. p What consciousness means is being aware of where your energy goes. -- Carolyn Myss p What convinces is conviction. -- Lyndon Johnson p What could we do together that we would both really enjoy doing? -- Lee Coit p What do you care what other people think? -- Richard Feynmann p What do you mean, it's too late? We're not dead yet! -- Shampoo (the movie) p What does "done" look like? p What does it all mean? p What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them? -- Roger von Oech p What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Seneca p What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. p What good is progress if it is unevenly distributed? p What got you here won't get you there. -- Marshall Goldsmith p What happens to your fist when you open your hand? -- Zen proverb p What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me. -- Robert Browning p What I ought to do, I can; if I can, why don't I? p What I tell you three times is true. -- Robert Heinlein p What is a "free gift"? Aren't all gifts free? p What is a magician but a practicing theorist? -- Obi-Wan Kenobi p What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful. -- Sappho p What is chaos but matter disturbed by immaterial forces? -- Herbert Read p What is done to children, they will do to society. p What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. -- Titus Lucretius Carus p What is history but a fable agreed upon? -- Napoleon Bonaparte p What is life without a character? -- Trusler p What is new is not true and what is true is not new. p What is obvious to you is not obvious to others... And vice versa. p What is the blessing here? -- Vikki Coit p What is the sound of one hand clapping? -- Zen proverb p What is the vector that is orthogonal to itself? p What love means is that we are sharing a common state together. -- Ram Dass p What matters is not how often you are right, but... your cumulative errors. -- Nassim Taleb p What must be, must be. -- John Wesley p What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way? p What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -- John Lilly p What one can conceive and believe one can achieve. p What part of my Self do I wish to experience now in the face of this calamity? p What really changes your life is the passionate pursuit of something you love. p What really matters is not the choice you make but your attitude about it. p What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off. -- Carl Sagan p What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency? p What soon grows old? Gratitude. -- Aristotle p What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. p What the government gives it must first take away. -- Dan Quayle p What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. -- Nikita Khruschev p What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -- Pearl Bailey p What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. -- Hansel Duckett p What tribal rules are you plugged into? -- Carolyn Myss p What we do not understand we do not possess. -- Johann von Goethe p What we first learn, we best can. -- James Kelly p What we know about the human possibility is so absurdly trivial thus far. p What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. -- Thomas Paine p What we resist, persists. p What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock p What will you do when the new wears off and the old shines through? p What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? -- Schuller p What you are, not what you have, is what makes you rich. p What you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. p What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -- Ralph Emerson p What you don't know can hurt you, but you won't know it. p What you don't know won't help you much either. -- Bennett p What you enjoy is much more important than what you have. p What you expect in relationships with others you must first find in yourself. p What you have caused, you can change. -- Will Limon p What you leave alone today will come back to haunt you tomorrow. -- Confucius p What you see but can't see over is as good as infinite. -- Thomas Carlyle p Whatever begins in freedom cannot end in necessity. -- James Carse p Whatever else you get, get insight. -- Solomon p Whatever has been well said by anyone is my property. -- Seneca p Whatever is funny is subversive. -- George Orwell p Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. -- Virgil p Whatever man has done, man may do. -- C. Reade p Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p Whatever the game is, play it as a professional. -- Peter Medawar p Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. -- Johann von Goethe p Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. p Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. -- Landon p Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. -- Herbert p When a couple starts keeping score, there is no winning, just degrees of losing. p When a man says money can't do anything, that settles it: He hasn't any. -- Howe p When a man's house is on fire, it's time to break off chess. -- James Fuller p When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. -- Charles Goodhart p When a paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero. -- Joel Barker p When a thing is done advice comes too late. -- G. Delamothe p When all men speak, no man hears. -- James Kelly p When all think alike, then no one is listening. -- Walter Lippman p When among apes, one must play the ape. p When an experience comes along, you just note it and just let it go. -- Ram Dass p When an expert stops learning, he is no longer an expert. p When angry count ten before you speak. If very angry a hundred. -- Jefferson p When bad predictions go unpunished, what incentive is there to stop making them? -- Dubner and Levitt p When children stand quiet they have done some ill. -- George Herbert p When cutting down trees, remember to pause now and then to sharpen your axe. p When does later become never? p When elephants fight, the grass loses. p When events change, I change my mind. What do you do? -- Paul Samuelson p When everyone agrees with me, I know I am wrong. p When faith and hope fail try charity; it is love in action. p When fortune knocks, be sure to open the door. -- Boyer p When fortune smiles, embrace her. p When God is invoked by the state, it's all too easy for the state to become God. p When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. -- Art Denman p When I get angry... I've made some kind of a law that's not true. -- Vikki Coit p When I know who I am, you and I are one. -- Hanuman p When I rest, I rust. -- Fritz Thyssen p When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann von Goethe p When in doubt, do as doubters do. -- John Taylor p When in doubt, follow your heart. p When in doubt, leave out the adjective. p When in doubt, take all the defaults. p When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. -- Thomas Jefferson p When it is dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Emerson p When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. p When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -- John Ruskin p When money talks there are few interruptions. p When people are least sure, they are most dogmatic. -- John Galbraith p When people are stressed, common sense goes out the window. -- Brian Seaward p When people share their fears with you, share your courage back. p When people show you who they are, believe them. -- Maya Angelou p When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure? p When pointing out another's mistake, always consider their feelings. p When poverty comes in at the doors, love leaps out at the windows. p When sex is good, it is only 2% of a marriage; but when it is bad, it is 98%. p When something of great importance is given to you, it is always born humbly. p When sorrow is asleep, wake it not. -- MA Stoddart p When success turns a person's head, he is facing failure. p When the belly is full the mind is among the maids. p When the blind lead the blind they both fall over the cliff. p When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch p When the cat is away, the mice will play. p When the dust is clear, one knows if he is riding a horse or an ass. -- Chinese p When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde p When the going seems easy, check that you're not going downhill. p When the grid is at capacity there is little margin for error. p When the mind is denied the sting of losing, it never figures out how to win. -- Jonah Lehrer p When the need arises, anything within reach becomes a hammer. p When the only choices are win or lose, everyone loses. -- Will Limon p When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. -- Edward Abbey p When the student is ready, the teacher appears. -- Hindu proverb p When the toes are hot, the hiking boots are shot. p When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. p When two friends have a common purse, one sings and the other weeps. -- Mapletoft p When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- Wrigley p When up to your ass in alligators, you forget your goal was to drain the swamp. p When war begins then hell opens. -- Torriano p When war is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -- Oscar Wilde p When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. -- Roger Babson p When we begin the journey of the self, it seems to require a stage of aloneness. p When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none, we are in danger. -- Draxe p When we have not what we like, we must like what we have. -- Bussy-Rabutin p When we succeed in being the only speaker, there is no speaker at all. -- James Carse p When we take the secure path we sign on for the lesson there is no such thing. p When wine is in, wit is out. -- Hall p When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose. p When you are at Rome live in the Roman style. -- St. Ambrose p When you are average, you are as close to the bottom as to the top. p When you are in a hole, stop digging. p When you are in command, command. -- Admiral Nimitz p When you are not going within, come from within as you deal with the world. p When you are ready to face life alone, you are ready for marriage. -- Fisher p When you are tribal, you will be religious, but you won't be spiritual. -- Carolyn Myss p When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -- Wayne Dyer p When you dig another out of trouble, you have a place to bury your own. p When you don't talk, things get awfully quiet. -- Martha Hartly p When you finally become a perfect parent, you are unemployed. -- Barbara Coloroso p When you find yourself walking through hell, keep walking! -- Winston Churchill p When you get angry your IQ drops 20 points. -- Douglas Baskins p When you get what you want you don't want it as much. p When you go out to buy, don't show your silver. p When you have a fight with your conscience and get licked, you win. -- Nuggets p When you have no agenda with power, all of it comes to you. -- Carolyn Myss p When you have seen one nuclear war, you have seen them all. p When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. -- Winston Churchill p When you invest your energy in being a victim, you say to God, "You screwed up." p When you invoke heaven, heaven comes. -- Carolyn Myss p When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -- Wayne Dyer p When you kill time you murder success. p When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p When you lose, don't lose the lesson. -- H. Jackson Brown p When you make a pact with the devil, word it very carefully. p When you mean no, say it in a way that's not ambiguous. -- H. Jackson Brown p When you need professional advice, get it from professionals. -- Brown p When you play for more than you can afford to lose, then you know the game. p When you quit working, retire TO something, not FROM something. p When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey. -- Arabian proverb p When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. p When you talk to yourself, or about yourself, watch your language! -- Will Limon p When you try to bring your mind to one point, at first it speeds up incredibly. p When you turn honest it limits your choices. -- Carolyn Myss p When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it. p When you're tired, small problems seem big, and big problems are insurmountable. p When you've won the game, stop playing. -- William Bernstein p When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Henry Kaiser p Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde p Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it. -- Solomon p Where are you at? Where are you going? What must you do to get there? p Where drums beat, laws are silent. p Where ignorance is bliss it is foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. p Where love is not, there is hatred. -- Thomas Draxe p Where love is, there is faith. p Where on Earth is the early warning system for man-made disasters? -- Goodman p Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher. -- Frank Herbert p Where people live there will be tragedy. -- Tom Stybr p Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Johann von Goethe p Where there is whispering there is lying. p Where there's a will, there's a way. p Where there's smoke, there's fire. p Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles p Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -- Wittgenstein p Wherever a man exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority! p Wherever there is a secret, there must be something wrong. p Wherever they burn books, they will eventually burn people. -- H. Heine p Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. -- Henry Ford p While there is life, there is hope. -- Publius Afer p While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. -- Dean Rusk p Who chooses to compete with another can also choose to play with another. p Who does not trust enough will not be trusted. -- Lao Tsu p Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser p Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands. -- John Ray p Who is more busy than he that has least to do? -- Thomas Draxe p Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife? p Who knows most, speaks least. -- Torriano p Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men? The Shadow knows. p Who knows what he knows and what he doesn't know is one who knows. -- Confucius p Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. -- T. Wright p Who lives by hope will die by hunger. p Who never wins can rarely lose, who never climbs as rarely falls. -- Whittier p Who steals my purse steals trash. -- William Shakespeare p Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow. p Who to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. p Whoever MUST play, cannot PLAY. -- James Carse p Whoever rows the boat doesn't have time to rock it. p Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom. p Whole civilizations rise from stories -- and can rise from nothing else. -- James Carse p Whom we love best, to them we can say least. p Why are we all put here to suffer and die? p Why attack God? He might be as miserable as we are. p Why be a man when you can be a success? -- Bertold Brecht p Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the locus Dei. -- Edward Abbey p Why do we study poverty instead of wealth? p Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? -- Jimmy Durante p Why I oppose the nuclear arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey p Why look for more knowledge when you do not pay attention to what you know? p Why look here for the joke? It is all around us. p Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? p Why should a rich man steal? -- John Ray p Why should ANYTHING exist? NOTHING would be tidier. -- Edward Abbey p Wicked people cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong. -- Solomon p Wilderness begins in the human mind. -- Edward Abbey p Wilderness... is the only thing left that is worth saving. -- Edward Abbey p Will is no skill. p Win without boasting and lose without excuse. p Winged flight is fundamentally a control problem, not a lift problem. -- Erik Conway p Winners never quit and quitters never win. p Winners outrun defeat by not stopping; losers give in to defeat by not starting. p Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. -- Norman Cousins p Wisdom is experience assimilated. p Wisdom is knowing what to do next. p Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. -- J. Winter Smith p Wisdom is long, violence is short. -- Carl van Doren p Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. -- William Wordsworth p Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list. p Wisdom is to live in harmony with the world at the moment it is. -- Ram Dass p Wisdom is what's left after we smarten up. p Wise men change their minds; fools never do. p Wise men have their mouth in their heart; fools have their heart in their mouth. p Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools, by their own. -- Plautus p Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat them. -- Palmer p Wise men propose, and fools determine. p Wise men see more from the bottoms of wells than fools see from mountain tops. p Wise people learn when they can. Fools learn when they must. -- Wellington p Wish in one hand and spit in the other -- see which one gets full first. p Wishful thinking is far less likely to produce results than direct action. p Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger p Wit has truth in it. Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. p Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. p With clothes the new are best; with friends the old are best. p With enough qualifiers, everything is special. -- Alan Silverstein p With just enough of learning to misquote. -- Byron p With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. -- von Schiller p With the foolish we should play the fool. -- Menander p With what fortitude we bear the suffering of others. -- Thomas McKeown p Within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury. -- Tom Duff p Without adventure, civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred Whitehead p Without execution, vision is just another word for hallucination. -- Mark Hurd p Without fear, there is no courage. -- Jeffrey Smith p Without fools there would be no wisdom. p Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough. p Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, quarreling stops. -- Solomon p Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. -- Stephens p Women blink nearly twice as much as men. p Women nod acknowledgment; men nod agreement. -- Lillian Roybal-Rose p Wonder is the daughter of ignorance. p Wonders will never cease. p Words and feathers the wind carries away. p Words are but wind. p Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. -- Mark Twain p Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth. -- Conversations with God p Words are the voice of the heart. p Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. -- Kipling p Words bind men. p Words have a longer life than deeds. -- Pindar p Words may pass, but blows fall heavy. -- John Ray p Words must be weighed, not counted. p Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -- Parkinson p Work is a form of nervousness. -- Don Herold p Work is love made visible. -- Kalil Gibran p Work is the worst thing you can do for your health. -- Howard Brubaker p Work like you don't need the money; love like you've never been hurt. p World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein p Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. -- Thomas p Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. p Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue. -- Alfieri p Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy? -- Tom Magliozzi p Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain p Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. p Wrong has no warranty. p Wrong laws make short governance. -- Harding p Wrong never comes right. p Years know more than books. -- George Herbert p Yes, I can summon my creativity. -- Madonna p You always find what you are looking for in the last place you look. p You are a creator; you create with your every thought. -- Esther Hicks p You are a wish to be here wishing yourself. -- Philip Whalen p You are almost as happy as you think you are. p You are an energetic being long before you are a physical being. -- Carolyn Myss p You are becoming more simultaneous with God than linear with humanity. -- Carolyn Myss p You are just a visitor to the history factory. -- Tony Snow p You are never too old to become younger. -- Mae West p You are not original if your peers agree with what you are doing. -- Heimlich p You are not paid enough to worry about your job. p You are only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. p You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome. p You are taking yourself far too seriously. p You are terrified of how truth can change your life. -- Carolyn Myss p You are the only authority on what is best for you. -- Hugh Prather p You are what you eat. -- Adelle Davis p You become more and more like a river. -- Ram Dass p You can "get" knowledge, but you can only BE wise. -- Ram Dass p You can always find what you are not looking for. p You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary p You can always tell luck from ability by its duration. p You can be sincere and still be wrong. -- Walter Lippmann p You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. -- Tennessee Williams p You can bear anything if it isn't your own fault. -- Katharine Gerould p You can do anything you want, but not everything you want. p You can easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue: Agree with him. -- Howe p You can fix a bad page, but you can't fix a blank page. -- anonymous p You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. -- James Thurber p You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. -- Elbert Hubbard p You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. p You can live outside the law, but you must be honest. p You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof. -- Naeser p You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular. p You can move the world with an idea, but you have to think of it first. p You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race. -- David Bowie p You can never do just one thing. -- Hardin p You can never get enough of what you don't really want. -- Huston Smith p You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in. -- Junot Diaz p You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeanette Rankin p You can only improve on saying nothing by saying nothing often. -- Frank Tyger p You can own a dog, but you can only feed a cat. p You can send your relationship to an early grave with a series of little digs. p You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once. p You can tell the ideas of a nation by its advertisements. -- George Douglas p You can't control what you can't measure. -- Tom DeMarco p You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -- David Lord George p You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. -- Rabindranath Tagore p You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up. -- Richard Nixon p You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain p You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up. -- Peter Frampton p You can't fall off the floor. -- Paul p You can't fool heaven. -- Carolyn Myss p You can't get to the light without going through the darkness. -- Carolyn Myss p You can't have a better tomorrow when you are mostly thinking of yesterday. p You can't have other people do your pushups for you. -- Jack Canfield p You can't have your cake and eat it too. p You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. -- George Burns p You can't love someone else unless you can first love yourself. -- Bruce Fisher p You can't produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women! -- Handel p You can't simulate pain intellectually. You must live through it. -- MacKinnon p You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. -- Edward Abbey p You can't take money with you when you die. -- Marryat p You can't teach an old dog new tricks. -- Leng-Tzu p You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. p You can't tie two rocks together and expect them to float. -- Jesse Berst p You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd. p You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. p You cannot fool all of the people all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln p You cannot give what you do not have. p You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming p You cannot have trust without U. p You cannot hold a man down without staying down with him. -- Booker Washington p You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau p You cannot live a meaningless life; it's against the spiritual rules. -- Carolyn Myss p You cannot lose what you never had. p You cannot make your candle brighter by blowing out someone else's. p You cannot play at chess if you are kindhearted. p You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. p You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. -- Edward Abbey p You cannot see farther than others by standing on the feet of giants. p You cannot see the city for the houses. p You cannot see the forest for the trees. p You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi p You cannot use your friends and have them too. p You catch more bees with honey than vinegar. p You do not know a bird from the shell out of which it hatched. p You do not know your friend until you have quarreled with him. -- Thomas McKeown p You don't drown by falling in water. You drown by staying there. -- R. Allen p You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. p You don't have to agree in order to understand. -- Lillian Roybal-Rose p You don't have to know, you just have to know who knows. -- John Taylor p You don't know a person until you have divided an inheritance with him. p You don't know what to ask for to make you happy because you've never had it. p You don't manage people. You manage things. You lead people. -- Grace Hooper p You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. p You either learn as you go or don't. -- John Taylor p You either set standards, or you follow them. p You get half of what you pay for. p You get the most of what you need the least. p You get things done by getting them done. -- Tom Brokaw p You get what you don't pay for. -- John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group p You get what you pay for. -- Leng-Tzu p You have a strict obligation have no opinion about things you don't understand -- Morgan Housel p You have no inalienable right to another's continued affection. p You have no obligation to always love someone you once loved. p You have no obligation to have an opinion about anything. -- Morgan Housel p You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -- John Morley p You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact. p You have to play harder than you work to make working worthwhile. p You have to, at each level, go beyond that level. -- Ram Dass p You improvise! You adapt! You overcome! -- Clint Eastwood p You just can't recreate that color blue on Earth, I don't know why. -- Astronaut Scott Parazynski p You keep your heart and mind separate because they have so much power. -- Carolyn Myss p You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it. -- Maharbal p You know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. -- God? p You know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right. -- Nassim Taleb p You live only once, but in that life you must die a thousand different deaths. p You might as well be you. Then you know if someone likes you, they like you. p You might not be responsible for falling down, but you are for getting back up. p You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky p You must awake for your dreams to come true. p You must learn the rules of the game, then play better than anyone else. -- Albert Einstein p You must look where it is not, as well as where it is. -- Buckminster Fuller p You must love, honor, and cherish yourself to do a good job with anyone else. p You must pass failure on your way to success. p You must transcend the rational mind; transcend the knower who knows. -- Dass p You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. -- Friedrich Nietzsche p You need not sow weeds. -- Fuller p You never "find" time, but you can always "make" time. p You never gain something but that you lose something. -- Henry Thoreau p You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. -- Blake p You never know what you can do till you try. p You never lose, but sometimes the clock runs out on you. -- Vince Lombardi p You never own anything but that it owns you too. -- St. Exupery p You never win an argument until they attack your person. -- Nassim Taleb p You only betray yourself when you ignore the inner dreams for your life. p You only learn the value of a minute after it's past. -- Eugene Miya p You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out. -- Jimmy Buffett p You only live once but, if you live right, once is enough. p You pay more for your schooling than your learning is worth. -- Clarke p You philosophers are sages in your maxims and fools in your conduct. -- Franklin p You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. -- Samuel Johnson p You use dualism to go beyond dualism. -- Ram Dass p You want it bad, you will get it bad. -- Savage p You will face every thought and fear that has authority over you. -- Carolyn Myss p You will never get dizzy doing a good turn. p You will never get enough approval to feel good about yourself. -- Lee Coit p You will remain deaf to my explanations until you suspect yourself of falsehood. p You won't have an economy on a dead planet. -- David Brower p You're going to the experience of the transcendence of separateness. -- Ram Dass p You're not really diversified unless something you own makes you uncomfortable. p You're twice as biased as you think you are; four times if you disagree. -- Morgan Housel p You're twice as gullible as you think you are. -- Morgan Housel p You've got to risk it all to have it all. -- Ram Dass p Young men may die, but old must die. p Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. p Young men's knocks old men feel. -- John Ray p Young saint, old devil. p Your ability to experience joy is tied to your ability to experience pain. p Your actions prove what you think of yourself. -- Will Limon p Your attitude is more important than your aptitude. -- Peter Chantilis p Your best dreams may not come true; fortunately, neither will your worst dreams. p Your best revenge is to live a happy life. p Your biggest handicap is what you think intuitive sight is. -- Carolyn Myss p Your biography becomes your biology -- and that is law. -- Carolyn Myss p Your body is the greatest instrument you'll ever own. -- Mary Schmich p Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. -- Mary Schmich p Your circle of competence is probably 90% smaller than you think it is. -- Morgan Housel p Your education begins where what is called your education is over. p Your face is an exercise in fractal curves. -- John Taylor p Your family gave you the best they knew at the time. -- Carolyn Myss p Your first amendment means I can say the second amendment sucks dicks. -- Jim Jeffries p Your first friend is worth the next thousand. -- John Taylor p Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life. p Your heart doesn't lie to your head; your head lies to your heart. -- Carolyn Myss p Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine. -- Louis Aragon p Your inability to grasp science is not an argument against it. p Your last mistake is your best teacher. p Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. p Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true. p Your money burns a hole in your pocket. p Your soul is on a mission from God to have experiences and return to God. p Your spirit and your body thrive on living honorably. -- Carolyn Myss p Your superstitions still have you by the short hairs. -- Carolyn Myss p Your teachers are often people who have been right around you. -- Ram Dass p Your thought is the parent which gives birth to all things. -- God? p Your vibe attracts your tribe. -- Pam Grout p Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. -- Carl Jung p Your winning smile is your greatest asset. p Youth and age will never agree. p Youth and white paper take any impression. -- Edgeworth p Youth had been a habit of hers so long that she could not part with it. p Youth is a blunder; maturity a struggle; old age a regret. p Youth is not a time of life but a state of mind. p Youth is the trustee of posterity. p Youth will be served. -- Borrow p Youth will have its swing. -- Clarke p Youth... It is a wonder that anyone ever outgrows it. p Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. -- Fuller p Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one. -- Fuller p Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. p Zen is the sound of the ax chopping. Chopping logic. -- Edward Abbey