Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Localities The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Localities
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Localities Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Localities
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Localities There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Localities
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Localities Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Localities
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Localities We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Localities
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Localities We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Localities
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Localities The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Localities
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Localities They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Localities
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Localities Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Localities
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Localities "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Localities
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Localities
