Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Home Exchanges No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Home Exchanges
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Home Exchanges "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Home Exchanges
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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" The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Home Exchanges The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Home Exchanges
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Home Exchanges He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Home Exchanges
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Home Exchanges "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Home Exchanges
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Home Exchanges 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 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Home Exchanges
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Home Exchanges "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Home Exchanges
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Home Exchanges An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Home Exchanges
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Home Exchanges Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Home Exchanges
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Home Exchanges "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Home Exchanges
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Home Exchanges blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Home Exchanges
