Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Zdolbuniv Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Zdolbuniv
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Zdolbuniv "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Zdolbuniv
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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" If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Zdolbuniv Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Zdolbuniv
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Zdolbuniv "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Zdolbuniv
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Zdolbuniv "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Zdolbuniv
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 Zdolbuniv I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Zdolbuniv
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Zdolbuniv The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Zdolbuniv
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Zdolbuniv Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Zdolbuniv
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Zdolbuniv "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Zdolbuniv
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Zdolbuniv If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Zdolbuniv
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Zdolbuniv I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Zdolbuniv
