Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 R To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) R
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton R Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position R
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) R The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) R
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson R The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin R
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous R "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius R
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) R We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) R
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff R To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort R
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." R 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team R
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll R Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) R
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill R The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead R
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm R Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty R
