The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Kidonia The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Kidonia
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Kidonia "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Kidonia
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kidonia The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Kidonia
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Kidonia The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Kidonia
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Kidonia Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Kidonia
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Kidonia "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Kidonia
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Kidonia No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Kidonia
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Kidonia And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Kidonia
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kidonia Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Kidonia
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "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) Kidonia The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kidonia
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Kidonia If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Kidonia
