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Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken News and Media I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday News and Media
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) News and Media "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) News and Media
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) News and Media The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor News and Media We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle News and Media
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun News and Media I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff News and Media
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier News and Media
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) News and Media A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 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 News and Media
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker News and Media
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. News and Media I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little News and Media
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside News and Media Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) News and Media
