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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Axminster blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Axminster
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Axminster The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Axminster
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Axminster The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Axminster
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Axminster "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Axminster
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Axminster "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Axminster
"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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Axminster The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Axminster
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Axminster In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Axminster
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Axminster "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Axminster
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Axminster He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Axminster
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Axminster Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Axminster
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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, What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Axminster The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Axminster
