"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) W Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II W
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson W I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) W
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) W The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings W
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 W It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland W
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde W 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe W
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin W Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings W
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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins W When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides W
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde W "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa W
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) W No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth W
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign W We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) W
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw W A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) W
