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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Hartwell A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hartwell
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hartwell What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Hartwell
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Hartwell It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hartwell
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Hartwell A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Hartwell
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Hartwell "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Hartwell
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hartwell blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Hartwell
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hartwell 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 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Hartwell
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Hartwell "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Hartwell
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Hartwell "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hartwell
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Hartwell "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Hartwell
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Hartwell People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Hartwell
