It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Religion
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Religion Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Religion
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Religion Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Religion
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Religion Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Religion
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Religion Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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" 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 Religion I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "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 Religion
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Religion Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Religion
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Religion If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Religion
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Religion
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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Religion 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Religion
