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, Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Photography There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Photography
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Photography The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Photography
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Photography "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Photography
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Photography Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Photography
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Photography You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Photography
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Photography One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Photography
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Photography Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Photography
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Man and wife make one fool. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Photography "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Photography
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Photography The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Photography
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Photography The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Photography
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Photography We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Photography
