The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche By County Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth By County
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard By County Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) By County
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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" "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey By County 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 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain By County
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin By County Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor By County
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By County First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns By County
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) By County 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co By County
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti May you never leave your marriage alive. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz By County The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford 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 By County
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed By County I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner By County
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By County I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland By County
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France By County Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) By County
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) By County "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer By County
