Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Paros "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Paros
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Paros "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 Paros
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Paros "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Paros
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Paros Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Paros
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Paros History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Paros
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Paros The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 Paros
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Paros He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Paros
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Paros The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Paros
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th 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 Paros "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Paros
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Paros What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Paros
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Paros "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Paros
