A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer V Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara V
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato V blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words V
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) V Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg V
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood V Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) V
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin V My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy V
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara V Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine V
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon V Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis V
"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) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock V "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton V
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa V If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli V
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) V Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb V
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) V blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana V
