Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice D It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 D
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words D The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein D
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu My other wife is beautiful. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold D I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi D
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) D I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana D
"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, Alice in Wonderland To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle D There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 D
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken D The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show D
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 D Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous D
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) D Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "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) D
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t D Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may D
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford D I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr D
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer D Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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