Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Archives Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Archives
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "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) Archives Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. 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 Archives
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Archives 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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Archives
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Archives Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Archives
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Archives "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Archives
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Archives It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Archives
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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Archives "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Archives
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "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) Archives I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Archives
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Archives If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Archives
"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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Archives I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Archives
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Archives "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Archives
