"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Q Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Q
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Q Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Q
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Q "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Q
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 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 Q "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Q
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Q Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Q
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Q If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Q
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Q My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Q
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Q Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Q
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Q Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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) Q
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Q She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Q
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Q Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Q
