"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) By Region "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II By Region
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) By Region Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche By Region
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton By Region "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) By Region
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington By Region "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de By Region
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf By Region No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) By Region
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes By Region "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert By Region
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley By Region Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V By Region
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) By Region Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) By Region
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt By Region blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber By Region
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 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers By Region "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) By Region
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills By Region The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber By Region
