"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Music "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Music
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Music "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Music
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Music There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Music
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Music Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Music
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Music 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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Music
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Music "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Music
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Music Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Music
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Music Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Music 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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Music
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Music To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Music
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Music "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Music
