The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Dance There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Dance
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Dance Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Dance
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Dance If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Dance
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Dance "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Dance
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Dance The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Dance To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Dance
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dance If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Dance
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Dance While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Dance
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Dance You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dance My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Dance
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Dance "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Dance
