It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Localities People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Localities Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Localities
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Localities 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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) Localities
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Localities Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Localities
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Localities Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Localities
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Localities "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Localities
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous 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" Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Localities It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Localities
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Localities
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Localities The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Localities
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Localities Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) 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 Localities When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Localities
