"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Zlin "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Zlin
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Zlin Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Zlin
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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Zlin "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Zlin
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Zlin In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Zlin
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Zlin I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Zlin
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Zlin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Zlin
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Zlin 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Zlin
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Zlin He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Zlin
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Zlin It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Zlin
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Zlin You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 Zlin
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "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 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Zlin Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Zlin
