"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Parks He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Parks
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Parks blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Parks
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Parks The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Parks
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Parks Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Parks
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Parks The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Parks
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Parks Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Parks
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parks Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Parks
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Parks Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Parks
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Parks None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Parks
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Parks That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Parks
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Parks If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Parks
