Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Milltown At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Milltown
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Milltown To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Milltown
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Milltown Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Milltown
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Milltown "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Milltown
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Milltown "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) 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. Milltown
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Milltown "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Milltown
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Milltown Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Milltown
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Milltown The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
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 Milltown
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Milltown We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Milltown
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Milltown Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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 Milltown
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Milltown To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Milltown
