Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Man and wife make one fool. By County Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper By County
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli By County When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux By County
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position By County We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) By County
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis By County Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed By County
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur By County Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. By County
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "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, A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere By County "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "... 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) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By County
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken By County Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice By County
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "... 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) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) By County Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "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) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story By County
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte By County "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) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel By County
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon By County
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo By County An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) By County
