"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Television People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Television
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Television This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Television
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Television Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Television
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Television Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Television
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Television The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Television
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Television "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Television
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Television "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Television
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Television Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Television
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Television The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Television
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Television It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Television
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Television Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Television
