Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg B Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) B
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon B The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone B
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion B You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i B
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. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell B I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) B
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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.
- Sir Winston Churchill The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay B A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot B
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) B 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. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton B
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) B Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham B
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe B A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 B
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) B Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt B
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr B "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) B
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad B I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz B
