This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "... 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) Dance "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Dance
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Dance 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Dance
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Dance "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dance
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dance In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Dance
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Dance "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Dance
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Dance The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Dance
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Dance Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Dance
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Dance blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Dance
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Dance Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Dance
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Dance Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Dance
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Dance Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Dance
