The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Employment Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Employment
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Employment
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Employment 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? Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Employment
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Employment The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Employment
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Employment Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Employment
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Employment A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Employment I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Employment
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Employment Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Employment
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Employment The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Employment
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Employment "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Employment
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Employment "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Employment
