"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Theosophy "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Theosophy
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Theosophy There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Theosophy
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Theosophy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Theosophy
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Theosophy Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Theosophy
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Theosophy We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Theosophy
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Theosophy This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Theosophy
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Theosophy Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Theosophy
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Theosophy Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Theosophy
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Theosophy It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Theosophy
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "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) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Theosophy The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Theosophy
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Theosophy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Theosophy
