The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Leigh Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Leigh
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Leigh It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Leigh
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Leigh "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Leigh
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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Leigh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Leigh
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Leigh A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Leigh
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Leigh "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o 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 Leigh
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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
comple Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Leigh Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Leigh
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Leigh It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Leigh
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Leigh The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Leigh
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Leigh We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin 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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Leigh
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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 Leigh Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Leigh
