"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Movies "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Movies
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Movies "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Movies
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Movies Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Movies
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels 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 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Movies The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Movies
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Movies Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Movies
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Movies "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Movies
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Movies Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Movies
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Movies You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Movies
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Movies Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Movies
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Movies The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Movies
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Movies The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Movies
