I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Z "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Z
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Z If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Z
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Z The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Z
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Z For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Z
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Z It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Z
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Z "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Z
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Z I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Z
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Z 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 Unha "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Z
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Z If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Z
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Z Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Z
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Z All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Z
