Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Emin, Tracey "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "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 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Emin, Tracey
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Emin, Tracey There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Emin, Tracey
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Emin, Tracey He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Emin, Tracey
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 Emin, Tracey "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Emin, Tracey
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Emin, Tracey Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Emin, Tracey
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Emin, Tracey The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Emin, Tracey
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Emin, Tracey My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Emin, Tracey
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Emin, Tracey Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Emin, Tracey
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Emin, Tracey If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Emin, Tracey
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "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) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Emin, Tracey You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Emin, Tracey
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Emin, Tracey You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Emin, Tracey
