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The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Architecture "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Architecture
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Architecture "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Architecture
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Architecture
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Architecture I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Architecture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Architecture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Architecture
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Architecture My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Architecture
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Architecture A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Architecture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Architecture "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Architecture
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Architecture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Architecture
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Architecture ... 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
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Architecture
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Architecture This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Architecture
