I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld May you never leave your marriage alive. Florence Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Florence
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Florence Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Florence
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Florence There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Florence
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Florence This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Florence
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Florence Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Florence
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Florence I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Florence
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Florence Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Florence
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Florence Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Florence
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Florence The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Florence
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Florence Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Florence
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Florence Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Florence
