"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard By Region Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By Region
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri By Region If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) By Region
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen By Region What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) By Region
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken By Region "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O By Region
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) By Region Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley By Region
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "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) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w By Region
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince By Region The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By Region
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec By Region I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "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) By Region
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen By Region Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words By Region
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "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) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh By Region There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb By Region
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe By Region The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson By Region
