Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A
