Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Castleside If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Castleside
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Castleside Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Castleside
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Castleside "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Castleside
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Castleside All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castleside
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Castleside Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Castleside
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Castleside It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Castleside
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Castleside What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Castleside
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Castleside He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Castleside
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Castleside The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Castleside
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "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 Castleside "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Castleside
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Castleside The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Castleside
