The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Arts and Entertainment "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Arts and Entertainment
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Arts and Entertainment blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Arts and Entertainment
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Arts and Entertainment
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Arts and Entertainment A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Arts and Entertainment
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Arts and Entertainment Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Arts and Entertainment
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "'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, Through the Looking Glass) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Arts and Entertainment Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Arts and Entertainment Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Arts and Entertainment
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Arts and Entertainment "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Arts and Entertainment Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee 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 Arts and Entertainment
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Arts and Entertainment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
