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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Music "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Music
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Music When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Music
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Music When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Music
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Music Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Music
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Music 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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Music
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Music If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Music
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Music "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Music
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Music Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Music
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Music 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Music
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Music A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Music
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Music the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Music
