"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Z "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Z
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Z Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Z
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "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) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Z Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Z
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Z The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Z
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Z May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Z
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Z The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "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) Z
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Z Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Z
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Z Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Z
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Z Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Z
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Z I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Z
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Z Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Z
