"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux By Region Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu By Region
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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch By Region No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" By Region Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Region
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) By Region My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) By Region
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables By Region I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 By Region
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer By Region The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli By Region
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf By Region
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem By Region Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) By Region
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) By Region Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt By Region
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford By Region It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire 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 By Region
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner By Region What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw By Region
