This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer People
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "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) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr People Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and People
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "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) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) People I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last People
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo People "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) People
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers People Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers People
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh People "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous People
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) People Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright People
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer People It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) People
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) People "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) People
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi People Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may People
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha People "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land People
