"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "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) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Religion Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Religion
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Religion Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Religion
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Religion You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Religion
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Religion When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Religion
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Religion Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Religion Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Religion
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Religion If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Religion
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Religion Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Religion
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Religion Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Religion
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Religion The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Religion
