"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "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 Oristano Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Oristano
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Oristano How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Oristano
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Oristano The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Oristano
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Oristano Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Oristano
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Oristano "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Oristano
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Oristano Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Oristano
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oristano The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Oristano
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Oristano The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Oristano
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Oristano I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Oristano
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Oristano I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Oristano
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Oristano Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Oristano
