The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Events and Festivals "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Events and Festivals
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Events and Festivals Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Events and Festivals
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Events and Festivals "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Events and Festivals
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Events and Festivals "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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Events and Festivals
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Events and Festivals "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Events and Festivals
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Events and Festivals Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Events and Festivals
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Events and Festivals "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Events and Festivals
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Events and Festivals "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Events and Festivals
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Events and Festivals Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Events and Festivals
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Events and Festivals Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Events and Festivals
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Events and Festivals Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Events and Festivals
