"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld F When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the F
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford F Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle F
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf F A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill F
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan F Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer F
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac F He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "... 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) F
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti F "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles F
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford F A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) F
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber F The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co F
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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero F I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling F
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent F A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley 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. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton F
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) F The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers F
