"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Seine-Saint-Denis When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Seine-Saint-Denis
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Seine-Saint-Denis Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Seine-Saint-Denis
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Seine-Saint-Denis "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Seine-Saint-Denis
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Seine-Saint-Denis With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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) Seine-Saint-Denis
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Seine-Saint-Denis Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "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 Seine-Saint-Denis
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Seine-Saint-Denis Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Seine-Saint-Denis
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Seine-Saint-Denis "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Seine-Saint-Denis
"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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Seine-Saint-Denis Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Seine-Saint-Denis
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Seine-Saint-Denis Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Seine-Saint-Denis
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Seine-Saint-Denis A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Seine-Saint-Denis
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seine-Saint-Denis "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Seine-Saint-Denis
