"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Motoring 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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Motoring
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Motoring It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Motoring
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Motoring "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Motoring
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Motoring When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Motoring
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Motoring "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Motoring
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Motoring Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Motoring
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Motoring Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Motoring
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Motoring Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Motoring
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Motoring A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "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) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Motoring
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Motoring Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Motoring
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Motoring The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Motoring
