Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Animals Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Animals
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Animals Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Animals
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Animals Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings 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 Animals
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Animals Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Animals
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Animals Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Animals
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animals A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Animals
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Animals There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Animals
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Animals "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Animals
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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Animals The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Animals
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animals "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Animals
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Animals "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Animals
