When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Photography "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Photography
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Photography It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Photography
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Photography blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Photography
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Photography 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Photography
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Photography History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Photography
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Photography "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Photography
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Photography "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Photography
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Photography I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Photography
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Photography A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Photography
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Photography "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Photography
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Photography "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Photography
