... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Localities A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Localities
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Localities I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Localities
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Localities I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Localities
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Localities The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Localities
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Localities "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Localities
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Localities "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Localities
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Localities In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Localities
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "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) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Localities There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Localities
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Localities May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Localities
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Localities The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Localities
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Localities "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Localities
