There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "... 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) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb By Region "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp By Region
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) By Region When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, By Region
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) By Region Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams By Region
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 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By Region By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) By Region
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove By Region Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) By Region
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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" Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) By Region "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx By Region
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus By Region If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) By Region
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) By Region Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston By Region
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying By Region A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins By Region
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 husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock By Region "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith By Region
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin By Region "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet By Region
