Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow By County I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage is a rest period between romances. By County
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 By County "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson By County
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed By County "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) By County
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth By County "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous By County
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein By County All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb By County
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm By County 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 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous By County
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) By County No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) By County
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers By County "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel By County
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric By County Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton By County
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous By County 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen By County
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous By County The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs By County
