"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Varazdin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Varazdin
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Varazdin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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) Varazdin
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Varazdin A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Varazdin
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Varazdin Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Varazdin
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Varazdin Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Varazdin
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Varazdin Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Varazdin
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Varazdin If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Varazdin
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Varazdin Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Varazdin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Varazdin There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Varazdin
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Varazdin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 Varazdin
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Varazdin What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Varazdin
