We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Chats and Forums "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Chats and Forums
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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
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-- Vince Lombardi Chats and Forums 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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. Chats and Forums
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Chats and Forums Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chats and Forums
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Chats and Forums It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Chats and Forums
"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) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Chats and Forums "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Chats and Forums "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Chats and Forums
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Chats and Forums
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chats and Forums Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Chats and Forums blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Chats and Forums
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Chats and Forums "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 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
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