"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Capital Area Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Capital Area
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Capital Area Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Capital Area
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Capital Area "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Capital Area
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Capital Area Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus May you never leave your marriage alive. Capital Area
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Capital Area Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Capital Area
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Capital Area It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Capital Area
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Capital Area "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Capital Area
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Capital Area The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Capital Area
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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Capital Area Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Capital Area
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Capital Area Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Capital Area
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Capital Area There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Capital Area
