All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Kotovsk Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Kotovsk
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Kotovsk Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Kotovsk
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "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." Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Kotovsk We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Kotovsk
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Kotovsk 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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kotovsk
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Kotovsk Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "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) Kotovsk
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Kotovsk He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Kotovsk
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Kotovsk To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Kotovsk
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Kotovsk "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Kotovsk
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kotovsk Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Kotovsk "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Kotovsk
"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) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Kotovsk A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Kotovsk
