The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz X Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin X
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward X It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn X
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara X "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde X
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner X To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard X
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) X "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) X
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words X A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche X
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken X He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett X
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) X There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster X
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke X There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks X
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau X Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying X
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) X If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken X
