"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) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Arts and Entertainment
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Arts and Entertainment
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) What's new? Most of my wife. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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 Arts and Entertainment Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Arts and Entertainment There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Arts and Entertainment
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Arts and Entertainment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment
