"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess By County "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W By County
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 By County Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. By County
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) By County "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 By County
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By County "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells By County
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 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 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch By County Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein By County
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? By County Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) By County
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By County If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor By County
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters By County My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) By County
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Man and wife make one fool. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins By County Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield 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 By County
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law By County Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 By County I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good By County
