"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Titchmarsh "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Titchmarsh
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Titchmarsh The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "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) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Titchmarsh
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Titchmarsh There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Titchmarsh
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Titchmarsh 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Titchmarsh
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Titchmarsh Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Titchmarsh
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Titchmarsh A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Titchmarsh
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Titchmarsh blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Titchmarsh
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Titchmarsh "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Titchmarsh
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Titchmarsh "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Titchmarsh
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Titchmarsh Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Titchmarsh
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Titchmarsh "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Titchmarsh