The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Weather Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Weather
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Weather For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Weather
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Weather Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weather The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Weather
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Weather Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Weather
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Weather "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Weather Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Weather
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Weather
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Weather Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weather
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Weather There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Weather
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Weather blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
