"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) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "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) Animals 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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animals
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Animals "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Animals
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Animals We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Animals
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Animals "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Animals
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Animals Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Animals
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Animals "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Animals
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Animals Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Animals
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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Animals I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Animals
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Animals "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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Animals
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Animals The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Animals
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Animals "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) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Animals
