Offensief - Marxist group active within the Socialist Party. Affiliated with the Committee for a Workers' International.
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Parties And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "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 Parties
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Parties Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Parties
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Parties The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Parties
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Parties Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Parties
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Parties Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Parties
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Parties Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Parties
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Parties "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Parties
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Parties We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Parties
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Parties There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Parties
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Parties >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 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Parties
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Parties 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. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Parties
