The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 Localities "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Localities When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Localities
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Localities Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Localities
"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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Localities The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Localities
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a rest period between romances. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Localities Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Localities
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Localities It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Localities
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Localities I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Localities
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Localities Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Localities
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Localities A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Localities
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
