I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Photography Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Photography
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Photography
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Photography Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Photography
Man and wife make one fool. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Photography The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Photography
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) What's new? Most of my wife. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Photography "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Photography
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Photography The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Photography Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Photography
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Photography 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Photography
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Photography Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Photography
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Photography "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Photography
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Photography There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 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" "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Photography
