With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "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." Amorgos "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Amorgos
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Amorgos In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Amorgos
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Amorgos 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Amorgos
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "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) Amorgos blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Amorgos
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Amorgos Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Amorgos
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Amorgos They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Amorgos
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Amorgos Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Amorgos
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Amorgos If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Amorgos
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amorgos A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Amorgos
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Amorgos The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Amorgos
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Amorgos Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Amorgos
