Soulfulness - Basil Venitis - This is a collection of ideas on character, from this motivational speaker for hire, based in Paleo Phalerum.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Services "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Services
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Services "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Services
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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Services It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Services
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Services To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Services
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Services Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Services
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Services It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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 Services
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Services When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Services
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "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) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Services 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 All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Services
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Services Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Services
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Services Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Services
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Services I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Services
