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 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Moulton One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Moulton
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Moulton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Moulton
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Moulton Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Moulton
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Moulton ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Moulton
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Moulton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Moulton
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Moulton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Moulton
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Moulton Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Moulton
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Moulton Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Moulton
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Moulton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Moulton
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Moulton "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Moulton
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Moulton "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Moulton
