"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 Bar The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bar
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bar Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Bar
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bar I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Bar
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Bar "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Bar
"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) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bar Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Bar
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Bar 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 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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bar
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Bar The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Bar
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Bar Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Bar
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Bar "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Bar
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Bar The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bar
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Bar I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Bar
