People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Q People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Q
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Spinster: A bachelor's wife. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Q If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Q
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Q Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Q
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Q 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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Q
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "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) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Q I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Q
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Q There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Q
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Q "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Q
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Q
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Q Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Q
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Q A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Q
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Q English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Q
