It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley General Cargo Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams General Cargo
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet General Cargo The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson General Cargo
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy General Cargo Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou General Cargo
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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 General Cargo How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers General Cargo
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod General Cargo "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 General Cargo
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n General Cargo I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz General Cargo
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart General Cargo Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. General Cargo
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
General Cargo Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) General Cargo
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth General Cargo Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller General Cargo
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) General Cargo I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) General Cargo
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem General Cargo Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) General Cargo
