If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Hertsa Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Hertsa
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Hertsa Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Hertsa
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Hertsa "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hertsa
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Hertsa Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Hertsa
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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Hertsa Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Hertsa
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Hertsa blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Hertsa
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Hertsa "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Hertsa
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Hertsa A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Hertsa
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Hertsa He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Hertsa
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Hertsa Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Hertsa
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hertsa To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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 Hertsa
