"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you never leave your marriage alive. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Cooking You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Cooking
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Cooking "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Cooking
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Cooking "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Cooking
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Cooking "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Cooking
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Cooking "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Cooking
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Cooking "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Cooking
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Cooking Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Cooking
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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. Cooking History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Cooking
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Cooking When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Cooking
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Cooking "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Cooking
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Cooking Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Cooking
