I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Jessen Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Jessen
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Jessen "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Jessen
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Jessen The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Jessen
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Jessen By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Jessen
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Jessen We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "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 Jessen
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Jessen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jessen
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Jessen A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Jessen
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Jessen "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Jessen
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Jessen "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Jessen
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Jessen If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Jessen
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "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) Jessen Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Jessen
