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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Hesse In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Hesse
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hesse A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Hesse
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Hesse "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Hesse
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Hesse My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Hesse
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Hesse If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Hesse
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Hesse A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Hesse
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Hesse "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Hesse
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Hesse "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Hesse
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hesse The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Hesse
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Hesse Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Hesse
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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 Hesse "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Hesse
