Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Gothic Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Gothic
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Gothic "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Gothic
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Gothic Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Gothic
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Gothic People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Gothic
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Gothic The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Gothic
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Gothic Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Gothic
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Gothic A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Gothic
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gothic Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Gothic
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Gothic Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Gothic
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 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 Gothic The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Gothic
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gothic If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Gothic
