Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Weather "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Weather
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Weather "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Weather
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Weather Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Weather
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Weather When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Weather
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Weather Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Weather
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Weather "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Weather
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Weather "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Weather
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Weather "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Weather
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Weather However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Weather
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Weather "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The 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.
-- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Weather
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Weather "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Weather
