Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Whitfield In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whitfield
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Whitfield Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Whitfield
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Whitfield May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whitfield
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whitfield With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Whitfield
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Whitfield 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Whitfield
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whitfield Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Whitfield
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Whitfield "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Whitfield
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Whitfield The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Whitfield
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Whitfield Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Whitfield
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Whitfield While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Whitfield
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Whitfield The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Whitfield
