"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Localities Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Localities
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Localities "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Localities
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Localities "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Localities
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Localities "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Localities 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 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'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Localities
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Localities When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Localities
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Localities
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Localities Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Localities
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Localities And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
Marriage is a rest period between romances. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Localities Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Localities
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Localities They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Localities
