"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) N This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch N
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal N The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon N
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu N 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.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and N
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Unhappy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler N Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 N
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton N The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "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) N
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit N You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld N
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) N Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine N
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France N My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time N
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous N The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder N
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard N A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? N
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 N We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw N
