"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham H At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley H
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune H If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a rest period between romances. H
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster H Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) H
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein H Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy H
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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West H Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner H
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara H Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith H
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. H He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. H
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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 H CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. H
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! H The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer H
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart H Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "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) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) H
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins H I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 H
