Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Folk Costumes "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Folk Costumes
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Folk Costumes "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 Folk Costumes
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Folk Costumes Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Folk Costumes
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Folk Costumes When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Folk Costumes
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Folk Costumes Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Folk Costumes
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Folk Costumes Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Folk Costumes
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Folk Costumes I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Folk Costumes
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) 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.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Folk Costumes Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Folk Costumes
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Folk Costumes Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "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) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Folk Costumes
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Folk Costumes "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Folk Costumes
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Folk Costumes Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Folk Costumes
