No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Southern Jutland A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Southern Jutland
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Southern Jutland "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Southern Jutland
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) 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 Southern Jutland blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Southern Jutland
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Southern Jutland The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Southern Jutland
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Southern Jutland Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Southern Jutland
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Southern Jutland I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Southern Jutland
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Southern Jutland "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Southern Jutland
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Southern Jutland Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Southern Jutland
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Southern Jutland "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Southern Jutland
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Southern Jutland Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Southern Jutland
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Southern Jutland 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) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Southern Jutland
