If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Localities If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Localities
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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 Localities Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Localities
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Localities Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Localities
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Localities The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Localities
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Localities Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Localities
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Localities A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Localities
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Localities "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Localities
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Localities "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "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) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Localities
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Localities
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Localities Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Localities
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Localities Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Localities
