If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 Philosophy The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Philosophy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Philosophy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Philosophy
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Philosophy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Philosophy
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "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) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Philosophy I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Philosophy
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Philosophy There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Philosophy
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Philosophy If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Philosophy
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "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 Philosophy 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Philosophy
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Philosophy "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken May you never leave your marriage alive. Philosophy
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Philosophy "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Philosophy
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Philosophy A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Philosophy
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Philosophy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Philosophy
