They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Knowsley Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Knowsley
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Knowsley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Knowsley
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Knowsley Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Knowsley
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Knowsley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Knowsley
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Knowsley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Knowsley
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Knowsley Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Knowsley
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Knowsley Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Knowsley
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Knowsley The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Knowsley
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Knowsley Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Knowsley
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Knowsley The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Knowsley
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Knowsley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Knowsley
