"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) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Food "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Food
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Food 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 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Food
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Food Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Food
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Food "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Food
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Food I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Food
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Food In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Food
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "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) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Food Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Food
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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Food Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Food
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Food blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Food
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Food "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Food
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "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) Food Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Food
