"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Television Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Television
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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 Television There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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.
-- If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Television In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Television
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Television Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Television
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Television 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Television
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Television "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Television
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Television The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Television
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Television Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Television
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Television The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Television
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Television 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 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Television
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Television Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Television
