"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Visual Arts May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Visual Arts
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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 Visual Arts 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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Visual Arts
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. Visual Arts For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Visual Arts
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Visual Arts Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visual Arts
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Visual Arts "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Visual Arts
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie 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 Visual Arts "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Visual Arts
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Visual Arts I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Visual Arts
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Visual Arts No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 Visual Arts
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Visual Arts The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "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 Visual Arts
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman 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 Visual Arts "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Visual Arts
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Visual Arts The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Visual Arts
