Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Aude Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Aude
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Aude 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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Aude
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Aude Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Aude
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Aude If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Aude
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Aude "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Aude
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Aude "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Aude
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Aude "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Aude
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time 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 Unhappy Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Aude The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Aude
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Aude Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Aude
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Aude "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Aude
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Aude Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Aude
