Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "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!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Satakunta "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Satakunta
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Satakunta "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Satakunta
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Satakunta They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Satakunta
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Satakunta "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Satakunta
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Satakunta If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Satakunta
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Satakunta "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Satakunta
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Satakunta "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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Satakunta
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Satakunta blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Satakunta
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Satakunta Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 Satakunta
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Satakunta After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Satakunta
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Satakunta He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Satakunta
