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Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Bodyart Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Bodyart
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Bodyart The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Bodyart
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Bodyart That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Bodyart
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Bodyart "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Bodyart
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Bodyart What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Bodyart
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "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) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Bodyart The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Bodyart
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Bodyart "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Bodyart
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Bodyart The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Bodyart
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Bodyart "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Bodyart
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Bodyart I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Bodyart
"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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Bodyart "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Bodyart
