"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Z "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Z
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Z I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Z
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Z I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Z
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Z "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Z I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Z
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Z "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Z
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Z "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Z
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Z "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Z
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Z If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Z
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Z Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Z
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Z Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Z
