"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Weston-super-Mare "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weston-super-Mare
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Weston-super-Mare True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Weston-super-Mare
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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.
-- In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Weston-super-Mare To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Weston-super-Mare
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Weston-super-Mare the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Weston-super-Mare
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 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Weston-super-Mare Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Weston-super-Mare
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Weston-super-Mare My other wife is beautiful. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Weston-super-Mare
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Weston-super-Mare "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Weston-super-Mare
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Weston-super-Mare Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Weston-super-Mare
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Weston-super-Mare God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Weston-super-Mare
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Weston-super-Mare I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Weston-super-Mare
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Weston-super-Mare Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Weston-super-Mare
