We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Winsford I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Winsford
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Winsford There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Winsford
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Winsford The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Winsford
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.
-- Crowf Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Winsford 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 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) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Winsford
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Winsford "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Winsford
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Winsford Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Winsford
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Winsford Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Winsford
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Winsford 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. Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Winsford
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Winsford Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Winsford
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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" Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Winsford If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Winsford
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Winsford Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Winsford
