"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Localities Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Localities
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Localities "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Localities
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Localities
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Localities "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Localities
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Localities We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Localities
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Localities Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Localities
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Localities There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Localities What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Localities
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Localities It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Localities
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Localities Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Localities
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Localities Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Localities
