The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ile-de-France "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens 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) Ile-de-France
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ile-de-France "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ile-de-France
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Ile-de-France "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Ile-de-France
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Ile-de-France There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Ile-de-France
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Ile-de-France I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Ile-de-France
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ile-de-France The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Ile-de-France
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Ile-de-France One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Ile-de-France
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Ile-de-France Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ile-de-France
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Ile-de-France Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Ile-de-France
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Ile-de-France To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Ile-de-France
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Ile-de-France There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ile-de-France
