Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Corinth The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Corinth
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Corinth Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Corinth
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Corinth The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Corinth
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 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Corinth One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Corinth
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Corinth A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Corinth
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Corinth Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Corinth
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Corinth It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice 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 Corinth
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Corinth There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Corinth
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Corinth Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Corinth
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Corinth If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Corinth
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Corinth Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Corinth
