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 Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Artists and Galleries Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Artists and Galleries
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Artists and Galleries Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Artists and Galleries
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Artists and Galleries You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Artists and Galleries
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Artists and Galleries An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Artists and Galleries
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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disg Artists and Galleries Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Artists and Galleries
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Artists and Galleries The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Artists and Galleries
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Artists and Galleries "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Artists and Galleries
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Artists and Galleries Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Artists and Galleries
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Artists and Galleries I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Artists and Galleries
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Artists and Galleries Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Artists and Galleries
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Artists and Galleries After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Artists and Galleries
