The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Spalding blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Spalding
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Spalding There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Spalding
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Spalding "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Spalding
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Spalding The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Spalding
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Spalding Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Spalding
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Spalding Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Spalding
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Spalding If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Spalding
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Spalding Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Spalding
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 Spalding "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Spalding
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Spalding Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Spalding
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Spalding Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Spalding
