Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Tal-Handaq A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Tal-Handaq
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Tal-Handaq When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Tal-Handaq
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tal-Handaq Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Tal-Handaq
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Tal-Handaq Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Tal-Handaq
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Tal-Handaq Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Tal-Handaq
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Tal-Handaq "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Tal-Handaq
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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Tal-Handaq Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Tal-Handaq
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Tal-Handaq Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Tal-Handaq
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Tal-Handaq If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Tal-Handaq
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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 Tal-Handaq "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Tal-Handaq
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Tal-Handaq To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Tal-Handaq
