"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Ethnic and Regional They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Ethnic and Regional
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Ethnic and Regional If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt May you never leave your marriage alive. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ethnic and Regional
"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 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ethnic and Regional It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Ethnic and Regional
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Ethnic and Regional Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Ethnic and Regional
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Ethnic and Regional Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Ethnic and Regional
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Ethnic and Regional The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ethnic and Regional
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric 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) Ethnic and Regional I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Ethnic and Regional
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Ethnic and Regional Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Ethnic and Regional
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ethnic and Regional Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Ethnic and Regional
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Ethnic and Regional The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Ethnic and Regional
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ethnic and Regional Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ethnic and Regional
