Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Localities There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Localities
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Localities "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Localities
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Localities The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Localities
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Localities Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Localities
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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Localities "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Localities
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Localities When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 Localities
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Localities A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Localities Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Localities Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Localities
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Localities ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Localities
>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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Localities "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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Localities
