The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Balearic Islands Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Balearic Islands
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Balearic Islands "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) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Balearic Islands
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Balearic Islands Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Balearic Islands
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Balearic Islands The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Balearic Islands
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Balearic Islands "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Balearic Islands
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Balearic Islands I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Balearic Islands
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Balearic Islands Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Balearic Islands
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Balearic Islands Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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, I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Balearic Islands
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Balearic Islands One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Balearic Islands
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack My other wife is beautiful. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Balearic Islands I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Balearic Islands
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Balearic Islands "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Balearic Islands
