There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Chiusi blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chiusi
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Chiusi Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Chiusi
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Chiusi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Chiusi
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Chiusi The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Chiusi
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Chiusi What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Chiusi
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Chiusi All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Chiusi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "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 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Chiusi People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Chiusi
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Chiusi This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Chiusi
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Chiusi The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Chiusi
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chiusi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Chiusi
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Chiusi Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Chiusi
