We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde E "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "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) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous E
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez E "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller E
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) E Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) E
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous E "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud E
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright E I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. E
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 E We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor E
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi E If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) E Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry E
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham E Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg E
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" E "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson E
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost E More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer E
