There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Provinces The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Provinces
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Provinces Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "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 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Provinces
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Provinces Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Provinces
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Provinces The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Provinces
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Provinces I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Provinces
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Provinces Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Provinces
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Provinces If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
"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 Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Provinces "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) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Provinces
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Provinces "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Provinces
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Provinces Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Provinces
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Provinces And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Provinces
