Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer 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 Flowers and Gifts For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Flowers and Gifts
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Flowers and Gifts Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Flowers and Gifts
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Flowers and Gifts Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Flowers and Gifts
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Flowers and Gifts Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Man and wife make one fool. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Flowers and Gifts
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Flowers and Gifts Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Flowers and Gifts
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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Flowers and Gifts The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Flowers and Gifts
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Flowers and Gifts "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Flowers and Gifts
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 Flowers and Gifts "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Flowers and Gifts
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Flowers and Gifts I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Flowers and Gifts
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Flowers and Gifts I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Flowers and Gifts
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Flowers and Gifts Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Flowers and Gifts
