"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Localities "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Localities
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Localities "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Localities
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Localities Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Localities "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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 Localities
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Localities Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Localities
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Localities There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein 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) Localities
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Localities Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Localities
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 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Localities Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Localities
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Localities The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Localities
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Localities "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Localities
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "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 Localities Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Localities
