Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Z "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Z
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Z People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Z
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Z "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Z
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Z A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Z
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Z Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "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 Z
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Z Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Z
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Z The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Z
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Z "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Z
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Z "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Z
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Z "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Z
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Z Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Z
