"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford U The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder U
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac U Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words U
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz U The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins U I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James U
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) U My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland U
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 U You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg U
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe U Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene U "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire U
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt U Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) U
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood U Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous U
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau U Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict U
