"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Drax 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 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Drax
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Drax "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Drax
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Drax Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Drax
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Drax We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Drax
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Drax Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Drax
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Drax I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Drax
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Drax Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Drax
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Drax Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Drax
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Drax Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Drax
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Drax Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Drax
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Drax If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Drax
