Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based By Region "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 By Region
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) By Region A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac By Region
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet By Region "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke By Region
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) By Region "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso By Region
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) By Region The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) By Region
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos By Region If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley By Region
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 By Region "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "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) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch By Region Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. By Region
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words By Region
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) By Region He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) By Region
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) By Region When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) By Region
