If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Opera What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Opera
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Opera He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Opera
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Opera "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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Opera
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "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) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Opera "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Opera
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Opera "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Opera
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Opera Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Opera
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Opera I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Opera
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Opera What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Opera
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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Opera I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Opera
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Opera All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Opera
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Opera Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Opera
