"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston X "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise X
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen X "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt X
"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 am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) X Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce X
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) X I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd 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 X
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton X The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. X
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) X Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead X
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde X When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun X
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius X "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) X
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed X Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues X
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal X Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers X
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard X The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw X
