Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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" Events Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Events
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Events Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Events
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Events Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Events
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Events I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Events
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Events A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Events
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Events Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Events
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Events A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Events
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Events The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Events
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Events Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Events
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Events "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Events
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Events "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Events
