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Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Law "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Law
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Law He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Law
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Law How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Law
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Law "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Law
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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, I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Law If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Law
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Law There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Law
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Law Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Law
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Law "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Law
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Law Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Law
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Law "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Law
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Law There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Law
