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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sitges Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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" Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Sitges
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sitges "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Sitges "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) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Sitges
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Sitges In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Sitges
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Sitges The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Sitges
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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Sitges Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Sitges
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Sitges The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Sitges
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Sitges "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Sitges
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Sitges I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Sitges
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Sitges "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Sitges
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Sitges Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Sitges
