"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Music Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Music
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Music "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Music
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Music "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Music
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Music One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Music
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Music The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Music
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Music Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Music
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Music I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Music "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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Music
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Music "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) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Music
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Music "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Music
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Music Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Music
