You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Events A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Events
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Events
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Events
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Events Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Events
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Events He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Events My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Events
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Events "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Events
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Events To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Events
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Events Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Events
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Events Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Events
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Events Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events
