In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Asturias I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Asturias
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Asturias 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Asturias
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Asturias Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Asturias
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Asturias No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Asturias
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Asturias "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Asturias
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Asturias Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Asturias
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Asturias If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asturias
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Asturias Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Asturias
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Asturias It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Asturias
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Asturias "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Asturias
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Asturias When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Asturias
