Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Property "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Property
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Property A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Property
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Property
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "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) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Property The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "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 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Property
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Property "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Property
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Property Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Property
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Property Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Property
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Property Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Property
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Property "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Property
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Property
