Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Property The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Property "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Property
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Property Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Property
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "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) Property Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Property
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Property History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Property
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Property Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Property
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Property The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Property
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Property Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Property
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Property I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Property
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Property 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Property
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Property "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Property
