"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Animals "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Animals
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "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) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Animals Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Animals
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Animals We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Animals
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Animals Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Animals
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Animals 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. Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Animals
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Animals "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) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Animals
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Animals Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Animals
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Animals It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Animals
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Animals He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 Animals
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Animals Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Animals
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Animals If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Animals
