The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte By Region There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey By Region
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France By Region "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker By Region
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi By Region The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) By Region
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. By Region All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 Region
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) By Region You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx By Region
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker By Region The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu By Region
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford By Region Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels By Region
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) By Region Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa By Region
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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, Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign By Region Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By Region
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, A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H By Region "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor By Region
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "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 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, By Region
