>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Language Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Language
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Language All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Language
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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Language 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 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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 Language
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Language
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Language Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Language
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Language blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Language
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Language Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Language
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Language If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Language
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Language Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Language
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Language Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Language
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Language Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Language
