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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Q blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Q
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Q "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Q
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Q 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Q
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Q Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Q
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Q "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Q
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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Q The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Q
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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Q Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Q
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 Q When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Q
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Q The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Q
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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Q Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Q
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Q And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Q
