The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Camping "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Camping
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Camping "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Camping
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Camping "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Camping
My other wife is beautiful. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Camping "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Camping
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Camping Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Camping
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Camping He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Camping
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Camping The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 Camping
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Camping Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Camping
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Camping The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Camping
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Camping "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Camping
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Camping Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Camping
