The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Austwick If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Austwick
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Austwick Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Austwick
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Austwick "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Austwick
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 What's new? Most of my wife. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Austwick The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Austwick
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Austwick I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Austwick
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Austwick "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 am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Austwick
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Austwick I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Austwick
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Austwick Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Austwick
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Austwick My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Austwick
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Austwick "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Austwick
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Austwick The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Austwick
