Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Dance "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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Dance
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Dance 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Dance
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Dance Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Dance
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dance blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dance Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Dance
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Dance Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Dance
"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) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Dance The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Dance
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Dance A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Dance
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Dance Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Dance
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Dance If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx What's new? Most of my wife. Dance
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Dance I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Dance
