Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Events If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Events
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 Events Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Events
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Events People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Events
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Events Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Events
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Events There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Events
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Events War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Events
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Events LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Events
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Events Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Events
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Events "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Events
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Events I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Events
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Events I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events
