"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Wesel "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Wesel
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Wesel There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "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) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Wesel Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Wesel
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Wesel At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Wesel
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Wesel "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Wesel
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Wesel If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Wesel
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Wesel "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Wesel
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Wesel "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Wesel
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wesel Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Wesel
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Wesel Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Wesel
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Wesel The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Wesel
