We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa C Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz C
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. C Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere C
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) C Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch C
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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich C When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi C
"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) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu C Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "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) C
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec C It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken C
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields C If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra C
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell C "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus C
"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) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson C I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde C
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa C Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 C
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln C "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed 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 C
