I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Rhone-Alpes "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Rhone-Alpes
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Rhone-Alpes Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Rhone-Alpes
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Rhone-Alpes "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Rhone-Alpes
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Rhone-Alpes "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Rhone-Alpes
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Rhone-Alpes "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Rhone-Alpes
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Rhone-Alpes The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Rhone-Alpes
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Rhone-Alpes He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Rhone-Alpes
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Rhone-Alpes Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "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) 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 Rhone-Alpes
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Rhone-Alpes We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Rhone-Alpes
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Rhone-Alpes Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Rhone-Alpes
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rhone-Alpes For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Rhone-Alpes
