"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Jaen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Jaen
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Jaen The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Jaen
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Jaen "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Jaen
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Jaen They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Jaen
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Jaen We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Jaen
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 Jaen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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" Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Jaen
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jaen "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Jaen
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Jaen Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Jaen
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Jaen "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jaen
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Jaen It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Jaen
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Jaen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Jaen
