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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired-- Robert Frost
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."-- Robert Frost
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.-- Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.-- Robert Bly
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.-- Robert Park
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-- Robert Frost
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.-- Robert Benchley
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.-- Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.-- Robert A. Heinlein
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.-- Robert Fulghum
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."-- Robert Benchley
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."-- Robert Graves
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.-- Robert Green Ingersoll
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)-- Robert A. Heinlein
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."-- Frank Herbert
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-- Albert Camus
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.-- Elbert Hubbard
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
"Friends don't let Friends drive Naked."
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.-- Elbert Hubbard
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-- Albert Einstein
"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-- Albert Einstein
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."-- Herbert Hoover
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.-- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.-- Albert Einstein
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together-- Herbert Prochnow
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.-- Elbert Hubbard
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.-- Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?-- Albert Einstein
Don't torture yourself, that's what friends are for.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.-- Albert Camus
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.-- Justice Robert Jackson