"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Society and Culture
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Society and Culture
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Society and Culture
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Society and Culture
