"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Architects With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Architects
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Architects A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Architects
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "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) Architects Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "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) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Architects
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Architects "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Architects
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Architects 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 heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Architects
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Architects Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architects
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) 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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Architects Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Architects
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Architects Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Architects
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Architects There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Architects
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Architects In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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 Architects
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle 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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Architects Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Architects
