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I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Piedimulera "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Piedimulera
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Piedimulera It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Piedimulera
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Piedimulera It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Piedimulera
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Piedimulera The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Piedimulera
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Piedimulera Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Piedimulera
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Piedimulera Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Piedimulera
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Piedimulera Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Piedimulera
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Piedimulera I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Piedimulera
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Piedimulera "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Piedimulera
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Piedimulera Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Piedimulera
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Piedimulera "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Piedimulera
