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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Gaucin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Gaucin
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Gaucin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Gaucin
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Gaucin Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Gaucin
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Gaucin "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Gaucin
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gaucin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Gaucin
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Gaucin Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Gaucin
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Gaucin "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Gaucin
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Gaucin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Gaucin
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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gaucin In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Gaucin
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Gaucin Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gaucin
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Gaucin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Gaucin
