Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) J Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) J
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning J Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows J
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone J Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei J
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton J 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really J
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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen J Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President J
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy J I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden J
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit J Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck J
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope J I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin J
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons J Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. J
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous J Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov J
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words J No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson J
