Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Bristol "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Bristol
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Bristol "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Bristol
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bristol I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bristol
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "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 man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Bristol The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Bristol
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Bristol When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Bristol
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bristol I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Bristol
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Bristol Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bristol
May you never leave your marriage alive. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bristol The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Bristol
"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) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Bristol "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Bristol
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Bristol A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Bristol
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "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) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Bristol His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "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 Bristol
