This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Brimstage If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brimstage
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brimstage Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Brimstage
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Brimstage Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Brimstage
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Brimstage Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Brimstage
"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. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 Brimstage I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Brimstage
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Brimstage Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Brimstage
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Brimstage And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Brimstage
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Brimstage "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Brimstage
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Brimstage Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Brimstage
"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) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Brimstage "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Brimstage
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Brimstage Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Brimstage
