"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Music
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Music "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "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) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Music
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Music May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Music
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Music "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Music
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Music
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Music "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Music
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Music The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "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) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Music
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Music When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Music
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Music A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Music
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Music "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Music
