If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Property 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Property
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Property "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Property
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Property "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Property
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Property "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words 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.
-- Crowf Property
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Property "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Property
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Property Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Property
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Property Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Property
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Property Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Property
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Property Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Property
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 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Property The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Property
"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) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Property Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Property
