"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) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cadiz We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cadiz
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Cadiz Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Cadiz
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Cadiz "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Cadiz
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Cadiz I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Cadiz
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Cadiz This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Cadiz
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Cadiz "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Cadiz
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cadiz The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Cadiz
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "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) Cadiz Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Cadiz
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Cadiz May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Cadiz
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Cadiz There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cadiz
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Cadiz No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Cadiz
