In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Z "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Z
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Z "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Z
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Z The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Z
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson 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 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Z
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Z The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Z
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Z Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Z
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Z The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Z
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Z One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Z
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Z Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Z
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Z Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Z
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Z Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Z
