blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer C Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen C
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous C In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) C
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "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) C I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance C
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton C Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) C
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sĝren Kierkegaard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) C "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) C
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 Unha Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA 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 C The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "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) C
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards C Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde C
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) C The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) C
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna C Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) C
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein C I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson C
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton C The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) C
