Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Motoring 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Motoring
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Motoring Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Motoring
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Motoring Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Motoring
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Motoring My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Motoring
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) 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 Motoring Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Motoring "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Motoring
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Motoring Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Motoring
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Motoring "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Motoring
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Motoring Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Motoring
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Motoring I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "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) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Motoring
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Motoring Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Motoring
