"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Music 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Music
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Music Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Music Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Music
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Music You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Music 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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Music
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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Music When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Music He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Music
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Music blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Music
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Music Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Music
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Music Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Music
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) My other wife is beautiful. Music "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Music
