The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Kent When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Kent
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Kent "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Kent
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kent He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Kent
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Kent The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Kent
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Kent blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Kent
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Kent History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Kent
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Kent It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Kent
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "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) Kent One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Kent
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Kent Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Kent
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Kent 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, To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Kent
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Kent Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Kent
