Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Music Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Music
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Music It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Music
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Music The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Music "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Music
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My other wife is beautiful. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Music 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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Music
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Music Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Music
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Music Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Nietzsche If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Music And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Music
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Music May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Music
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Music
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "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) Music The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Music
