I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Play-By-E-Mail I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Play-By-E-Mail
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Play-By-E-Mail If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Play-By-E-Mail
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Play-By-E-Mail "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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Play-By-E-Mail
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 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 Unhappy Play-By-E-Mail "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Play-By-E-Mail
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Play-By-E-Mail Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Unhappy He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Play-By-E-Mail
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Play-By-E-Mail The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Play-By-E-Mail
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Play-By-E-Mail Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Play-By-E-Mail
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Play-By-E-Mail >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "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." Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Play-By-E-Mail
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Play-By-E-Mail In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Play-By-E-Mail
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Play-By-E-Mail Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Play-By-E-Mail
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Play-By-E-Mail Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Play-By-E-Mail
