"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Home and Garden One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Home and Garden
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Home and Garden Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Home and Garden
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Home and Garden Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Home and Garden
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Home and Garden Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Home and Garden
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Home and Garden There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Home and Garden
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Home and Garden The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Home and Garden
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Home and Garden One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Home and Garden
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Home and Garden Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Home and Garden Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Home and Garden
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin My other wife is beautiful. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Home and Garden Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Home and Garden
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Home and Garden One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
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