If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Music We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Music
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Music Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Music
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Music Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Music
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Music Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Music
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Music Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Music
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Music Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Music I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Music
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Music Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Music
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Music When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Music
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Music "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Music
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Music Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Music
