The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Localities I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Localities
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "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." A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Localities
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Localities God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Localities
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Localities
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Localities Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Localities
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Localities blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Localities
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Localities It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Localities Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Localities
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Localities For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Localities
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Localities Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Localities
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Localities The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Localities
