"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ios "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ios
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ios The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Ios
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Ios "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks 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 Ios
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Ios In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Ios
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ios We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Ios
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Ios blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "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) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Ios
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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Ios "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Ios
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Ios Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Ios
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Ios Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Ios
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Ios Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Ios
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ios A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Ios
