Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Parks Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Parks
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Parks The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain 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 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Parks
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Parks What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Parks
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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Parks A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Parks
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Parks When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Parks
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Parks To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Parks
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Parks 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Parks
"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 you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Parks My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Parks
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Parks The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Parks
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Parks My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Parks
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Parks Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "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) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Parks
