Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Food There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Food
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Food Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Food
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Food A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Food
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Food "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) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Food
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Food A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Food
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Food "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Food
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Food 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 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Food
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Food I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Food
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Food "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Food "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Food
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Food "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Food
