"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Directories If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Directories
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Directories Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Directories
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Directories Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Directories
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Directories In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Directories
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Directories The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Directories
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Directories If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Directories
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Directories If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Directories
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Directories "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Directories
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Directories The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Directories
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Directories And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Directories
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Directories Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Directories
