I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) P "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw P
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg P The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards P
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) P "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) P
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u P I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac P
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) P Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe P
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller P If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 P
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Spinster: A bachelor's wife. P I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne P
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) P "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) P
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) P My other wife is beautiful. 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 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) P
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West P Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( P
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume P My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) P
