"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 A
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "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 A
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "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 A
