Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Oldham "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Oldham
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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Oldham I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Oldham
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Oldham "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Oldham
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Oldham Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Oldham
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Oldham Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Oldham
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Oldham "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Oldham
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Oldham "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Oldham
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Oldham "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Oldham
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Oldham Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Oldham
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings 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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer 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 Oldham Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Oldham
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Oldham Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Oldham
