There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Bootle He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Bootle
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Bootle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Bootle
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Bootle We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Bootle
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Bootle All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Bootle
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Bootle If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Bootle
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Bootle "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Bootle
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Bootle You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Bootle
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Bootle "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Bootle
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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Bootle During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bootle
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bootle He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Bootle
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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "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) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Bootle Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Bootle
