"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Artists and Galleries The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Artists and Galleries
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Artists and Galleries Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Artists and Galleries
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Artists and Galleries We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Artists and Galleries
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Artists and Galleries Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Artists and Galleries
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 Artists and Galleries "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Artists and Galleries
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Artists and Galleries "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Artists and Galleries
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Artists and Galleries Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Artists and Galleries
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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Artists and Galleries The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Artists and Galleries
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Artists and Galleries A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Artists and Galleries
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Artists and Galleries Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Artists and Galleries
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Artists and Galleries Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Artists and Galleries
