"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Zagan A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Zagan
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Zagan Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Zagan
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Zagan If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "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) Zagan
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Zagan If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Zagan
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Zagan There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Zagan
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Zagan The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Zagan
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Zagan Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Zagan
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "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) 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. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zagan Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Zagan
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "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) Zagan "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Zagan
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Zagan The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Zagan
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Zagan Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Zagan
