"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Localities Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Localities Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Localities
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Localities "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Localities
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Localities
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a rest period between romances. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Localities Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Localities
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Localities Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Localities
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Localities Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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 Unhappy It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Localities
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Localities
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Localities When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Localities "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Localities
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Localities "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Localities
