Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Issues Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Issues
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Issues We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Issues
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Issues "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Issues
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Issues When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Issues
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Issues Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Issues
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Issues A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Issues
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Issues "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Issues
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Issues I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Issues
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Issues Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Issues
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Issues Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Issues
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Issues How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Issues
