Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Photography If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Photography
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "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 Photography
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Photography the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Photography
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Photography Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Photography
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Photography If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Photography
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Photography "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Photography
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 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Photography Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Photography
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Photography All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Photography
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Photography Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Photography
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Photography There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Photography
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Photography Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Photography
