"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Cinema Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Cinema
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Cinema For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cinema
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cinema "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Cinema
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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Cinema "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Cinema
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Cinema Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Cinema
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 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Cinema Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Cinema
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Cinema Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Cinema
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Cinema A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Cinema
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Cinema Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Cinema
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Cinema 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Cinema
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Cinema The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Cinema
