"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Q Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Q
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Q Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Q
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Q I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Q
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Q There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Q
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Q My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Q
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Q Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Q
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Q In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Q
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Q One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Q
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Q 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Q
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Q Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Q
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Q "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Q
