"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Internet Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Internet
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Internet If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Internet
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Internet "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Internet
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Internet We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Internet
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Internet With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Internet
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Internet A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Internet
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Internet A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Internet
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Internet "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Internet
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Internet We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Internet
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Internet The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Internet
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Internet "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Internet
