"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Politics Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Politics
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Politics I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Politics
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Politics "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Politics
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Politics "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Politics
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Politics then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Politics NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Politics
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) 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 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Politics The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Politics
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Politics Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Politics
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Politics My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Politics Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Politics
