"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Sales If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Sales
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Sales Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 Sales
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Sales He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Sales
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sales "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Sales
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Sales "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Sales
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Sales The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Sales
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Sales We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Sales
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Sales "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Sales
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Sales There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Sales
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Sales When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sales
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Sales America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Sales
