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, Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "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 Meurthe-et-Moselle "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Meurthe-et-Moselle
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Meurthe-et-Moselle "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Meurthe-et-Moselle
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Meurthe-et-Moselle "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Meurthe-et-Moselle
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Meurthe-et-Moselle Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Meurthe-et-Moselle
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Meurthe-et-Moselle Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Meurthe-et-Moselle
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Meurthe-et-Moselle Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Meurthe-et-Moselle
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Meurthe-et-Moselle Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Meurthe-et-Moselle
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Meurthe-et-Moselle Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Meurthe-et-Moselle
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Meurthe-et-Moselle Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Meurthe-et-Moselle
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Meurthe-et-Moselle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Meurthe-et-Moselle
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Meurthe-et-Moselle How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Meurthe-et-Moselle
