"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight By County I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) By County
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray By County If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars By County
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. By County The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson By County
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur By County UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin By County
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 By County Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous By County
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By County The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn By County
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere By County Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) By County
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell By County What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" By County
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde By County I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) By County
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. By County Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 By County
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec By County Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard By County
