Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken 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, Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Rugeley "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Rugeley
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Rugeley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Rugeley
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Rugeley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Rugeley
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Rugeley Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Rugeley
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Rugeley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rugeley
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Rugeley The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Rugeley
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to 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 order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Rugeley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Rugeley
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Rugeley No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara 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 Rugeley
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Rugeley You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Rugeley
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rugeley "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) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rugeley
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Rugeley "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Rugeley
