For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Television I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Television
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Television Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Television
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Television "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Television
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Television All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" 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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Television
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Television The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Television
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Television Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Television
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Television Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Television
"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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Television
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Television Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Television
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Television Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Television
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Television The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Television
