"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Man and wife make one fool. Pieria "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." Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Pieria
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "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) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Pieria You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "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) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Pieria
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Pieria When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Pieria
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Pieria All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Pieria
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Pieria As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Pieria
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Pieria The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Pieria
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Pieria Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Pieria
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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" For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Pieria There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Pieria
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 Pieria blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Pieria
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Pieria Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Pieria
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Pieria "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Pieria
