We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Home and Garden "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Home and Garden
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Home and Garden "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) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Home and Garden
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Home and Garden I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Home and Garden
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Home and Garden Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Home and Garden
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Home and Garden University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Home and Garden
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Home and Garden "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Home and Garden
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Home and Garden Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Home and Garden
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Home and Garden Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Home and Garden
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Home and Garden It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Home and Garden
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Home and Garden Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Home and Garden Marriage is a rest period between romances. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Home and Garden
