"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Provinces The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Provinces
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Provinces "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Provinces
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Provinces "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Provinces
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Provinces "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Provinces
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Provinces I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Provinces
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Provinces As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Provinces
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Provinces It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Provinces
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Provinces The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Provinces
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Provinces The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Provinces If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Provinces More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Provinces
