"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Compstall "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Compstall
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Compstall I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Compstall
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Compstall If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Compstall
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Compstall Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Compstall
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Compstall "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Compstall
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Compstall I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Compstall
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Compstall Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Compstall
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Compstall Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Compstall
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Compstall "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 Compstall
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Compstall "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke May you never leave your marriage alive. Compstall Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Compstall
