Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Architecture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Architecture
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Architecture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Architecture
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Architecture I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Architecture
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Architecture "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Architecture
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Architecture "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Architecture
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Architecture "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Architecture
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Architecture Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Architecture
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Architecture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Architecture
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Architecture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Architecture
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Architecture "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Architecture
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Architecture The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Architecture
