There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Hardware Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Hardware
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Hardware "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "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) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Hardware
"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) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "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) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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 Hardware As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Hardware
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardware A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Hardware
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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 Hardware Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Hardware
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "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) Hardware We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Hardware
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hardware Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardware
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Hardware If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hardware
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Hardware 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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Hardware
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Hardware 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Hardware
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Hardware blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Hardware
