Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Provinces I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Provinces
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Provinces Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Provinces
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Provinces He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Provinces
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Provinces "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Provinces
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Provinces 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Provinces
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Provinces We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Provinces
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Provinces Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Provinces
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Provinces To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Provinces
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Provinces I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Provinces
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Provinces The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Provinces
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Provinces Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Provinces
