Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Animals Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Animals
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Animals We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Animals
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Animals Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Animals
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Animals He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Animals
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Animals A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Animals
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Animals I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Animals
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Animals A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Animals
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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Animals He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Animals
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 Animals 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Animals
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Animals "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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Animals
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara 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. Animals No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Animals
