I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) L Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. L
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 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 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine L Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) L
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck L You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan L
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will L "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) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius L
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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous L Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous L
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields L The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery L
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings L Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual L
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J L There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane L
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock L blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell L
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) L Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman L
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce L "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) L
