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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. 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 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Photography "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Photography
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Photography The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Photography
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Photography "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Photography
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Photography Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Photography
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 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 slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Photography "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Photography
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Photography Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Photography
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Photography Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Photography
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Photography Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Photography It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Photography
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Photography We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Photography
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Photography There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Photography
