The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman R blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb R
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning R "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really R
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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper R Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous R
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous R I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson R
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott R The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde R
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril R My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein R
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens R A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I R
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper R A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams R
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. R "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) R
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf R Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) R
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 R Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein R
