Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln P blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) P
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) P Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde P
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley P In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr P
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg P I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire P
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) P "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. P
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken P I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin P
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer P You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) P
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "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) P NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje P
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings P >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) P
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire P "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed P
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') P "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck P
