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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Personal Pages "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Personal Pages
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Personal Pages The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Personal Pages
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 want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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" Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Personal Pages You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Personal Pages
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Personal Pages "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Personal Pages
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Personal Pages
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Personal Pages Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Personal Pages
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Personal Pages cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Personal Pages
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Personal Pages Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Personal Pages
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland 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 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Personal Pages We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Personal Pages
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Personal Pages "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Personal Pages
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 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Personal Pages "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Personal Pages
