Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Religion Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Religion
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Religion "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Religion Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Religion
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Religion "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou What's new? Most of my wife. Religion
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Religion Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Religion
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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Religion Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Religion
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Religion The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Religion
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Religion "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Religion
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Religion
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Religion The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Religion
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Religion My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "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 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Religion
