I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Verbania "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "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) Verbania
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Verbania "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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Verbania
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Verbania It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Verbania
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Verbania "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) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Verbania
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Verbania Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Verbania
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Verbania You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 Verbania
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Verbania "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Verbania
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Verbania In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Verbania
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Verbania A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Verbania
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Verbania Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Verbania
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Verbania Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Verbania
