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.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Coalville "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Coalville
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Coalville Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Coalville
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Coalville The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Coalville
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Coalville You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Coalville
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Coalville "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalville
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Coalville The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Coalville
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Coalville "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Coalville
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 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Coalville The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Coalville
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Coalville A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Coalville
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Coalville "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Coalville
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Coalville The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Coalville
