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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Music The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Music
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Music Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Music
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Music "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Music
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Music Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Music
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Music Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Music
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Music Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" 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
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Music My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Music
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Music Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Music
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Music Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Music
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Music Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Music
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Music Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Music
