"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "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, Alice in Wonderland If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Guides and Directories The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 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 Guides and Directories
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Guides and Directories During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Guides and Directories
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Guides and Directories "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Guides and Directories
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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Guides and Directories
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Guides and Directories Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Guides and Directories
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Guides and Directories Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Guides and Directories
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Guides and Directories
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guides and Directories Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Guides and Directories
