"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any By County To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) By County
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "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) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and By County It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb By County
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley By County "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) By County
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "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) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain By County After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry By County
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death By County "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good By County
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Man and wife make one fool. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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." ( By County It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "'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, Through the Looking Glass) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw By County
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken By County Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein By County
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw By County To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce By County
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins By County "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides By County
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz By County Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco By County
