I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Music Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Music
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Music The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Music
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Music It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Music
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Music Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Music
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Music What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Music
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Music Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Music
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Music Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Music
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Music We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Music There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Music
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Music Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Music
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Music Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Music
