The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Poitou-Charentes "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Poitou-Charentes
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Poitou-Charentes "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Poitou-Charentes
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Poitou-Charentes Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Poitou-Charentes
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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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 Poitou-Charentes "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Poitou-Charentes
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 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "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 Poitou-Charentes "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Poitou-Charentes
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Poitou-Charentes Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Poitou-Charentes
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Poitou-Charentes 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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Poitou-Charentes
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Poitou-Charentes The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Poitou-Charentes
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Poitou-Charentes Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Poitou-Charentes
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Poitou-Charentes Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 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 Poitou-Charentes
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Poitou-Charentes "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Poitou-Charentes
