Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Livno The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Livno
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Livno If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Livno
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Livno "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Livno
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 Livno Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Livno
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Livno The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Livno
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Livno "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Livno
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Livno A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Livno
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "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) Livno And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Livno
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Livno As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Livno
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Livno When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Livno
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Livno Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Livno
