"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde 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, "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Rail Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Rail
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Rail If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Rail
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Rail "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Rail
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Rail "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Rail
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Rail It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Rail
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Rail When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Rail
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Rail The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Rail
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Rail A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Rail
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Rail The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rail
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Rail You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Rail
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Rail Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Rail
