After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Styles The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Styles
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Styles You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Styles
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Styles When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Styles
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Styles There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Styles
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Styles Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Styles
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Styles "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Styles
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Styles Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Styles
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Styles "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson My other wife is beautiful. Styles
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Styles Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Styles
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "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) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Styles If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Styles
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Styles I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Styles
