"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Localities "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Localities
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Localities Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Localities "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Localities
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Localities My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Localities
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Localities The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Localities
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Localities "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Localities
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Localities The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Localities Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Localities
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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Localities "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 Localities
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Localities
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Localities It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Localities
