blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Christianity He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Christianity
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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Christianity "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Christianity
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Christianity I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Christianity
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Christianity When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Christianity
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Christianity "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Christianity
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Christianity "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Christianity
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Christianity Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Christianity
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Christianity Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair 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 Christianity
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Christianity The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Christianity
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Christianity blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Christianity
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Christianity "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Christianity
