No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "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) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren W Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo W
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain W A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill W
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru W The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries W
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland W Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol W
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey W You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) W
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge W Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) W
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole W Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume W
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe W A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) W
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 W The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) W
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche W "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine W
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner W blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Spinster: A bachelor's wife. W
