"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Madrid "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Madrid
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "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) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Madrid 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Madrid
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Madrid Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Madrid
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Madrid America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Madrid
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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Madrid The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Madrid
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Madrid "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Madrid
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Madrid 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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Madrid
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Madrid If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Madrid
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Madrid Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Madrid
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Madrid "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Madrid
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Madrid Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Madrid
