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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Television Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Television
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Television It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Television
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Television "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Television
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "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) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Television When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Television
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Television Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Television
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Television I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Television
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Television "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Television
"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) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Television After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "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) Television
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Television By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Television
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Television We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Television
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Television The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Television
