"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Arts and Entertainment
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Arts and Entertainment It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Arts and Entertainment The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Arts and Entertainment
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Arts and Entertainment 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 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Arts and Entertainment
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Arts and Entertainment
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Arts and Entertainment The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Arts and Entertainment
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous May you never leave your marriage alive. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Arts and Entertainment
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Arts and Entertainment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment
