Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Sianow It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Sianow
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Sianow Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "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) Sianow
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Sianow Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Sianow
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sianow Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sianow
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Sianow The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Sianow
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Sianow Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Sianow
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "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 greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Sianow "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Sianow
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Sianow When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Sianow
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Sianow Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Sianow
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Sianow Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Sianow
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Sianow The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Sianow
