"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Localities
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Localities "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Localities
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Localities "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Localities
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Localities "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Localities
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Localities "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) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Localities
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Localities Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Localities
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Localities This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Localities
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Localities
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Localities
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Localities "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Localities
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Localities
