"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Photography "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Photography
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Photography Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Photography
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Photography "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) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Photography
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Photography Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Photography
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Photography Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Photography
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi 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 Photography No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Photography
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photography We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Photography
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Photography Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Photography
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Photography "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Photography Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Photography
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Photography Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Photography
