Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Dance Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dance
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Dance "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Dance
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Dance Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Dance
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Dance Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Dance
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Dance Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Dance
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Dance "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Dance
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Dance We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Dance They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Dance
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Dance Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Dance
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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Dance The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 Dance
"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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Dance "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Dance
