"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "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) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "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) Religion
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Religion Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Religion
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Religion Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Religion
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Religion 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 Religion
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. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Religion Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Religion "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Religion
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Religion "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Religion
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Religion Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Religion
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Religion In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "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) Religion
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. 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.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Religion "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Religion
