If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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" Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell K You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that K
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. K I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko K
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words K A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous K
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs K And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger K
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill K "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) K
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) K When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 K
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really K Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles K
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed K 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 K
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx K "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain K
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke K When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 K
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner K The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley K
