Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Bromborough It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bromborough
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Bromborough "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Bromborough
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Bromborough The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Bromborough
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bromborough "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Bromborough
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Bromborough To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Bromborough
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Bromborough "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Bromborough
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Bromborough "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Bromborough
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bromborough Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Bromborough
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Bromborough Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Bromborough
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Bromborough "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Bromborough
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Bromborough blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Bromborough
