A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Interior Design We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Interior Design
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Interior Design What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Interior Design
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Interior Design Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Interior Design
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Interior Design "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Interior Design
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Interior Design We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Interior Design
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus 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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Interior Design You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Interior Design
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Interior Design "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "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) Interior Design
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 Interior Design "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Interior Design
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Interior Design 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'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Interior Design
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Interior Design The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Interior Design
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Interior Design Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Interior Design
