He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Loire-Atlantique "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Loire-Atlantique
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Loire-Atlantique Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Loire-Atlantique
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Loire-Atlantique "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Loire-Atlantique
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Loire-Atlantique A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Loire-Atlantique
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Loire-Atlantique Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Loire-Atlantique
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Loire-Atlantique 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 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Loire-Atlantique
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Loire-Atlantique "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Loire-Atlantique
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Loire-Atlantique If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Loire-Atlantique
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Loire-Atlantique And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Loire-Atlantique
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Loire-Atlantique Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Loire-Atlantique
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Loire-Atlantique It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Loire-Atlantique
