The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "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) Y Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Y
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Y "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Y
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Y Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Y
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Y Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Y
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Y
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words 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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Y "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Y
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Y Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Y
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Y "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Y
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Y That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Y
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Y "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Y
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Y The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Y
