"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Religion If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Religion
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Religion Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Religion
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Religion "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Religion
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Religion I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Religion
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Religion "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Religion
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Religion For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Religion
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Religion If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Religion
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Religion There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion
"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) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Religion Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Religion
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Religion "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) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Religion
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Religion Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Religion
