It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Shareshill To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Shareshill
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Shareshill That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Shareshill
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Shareshill When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Shareshill
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Shareshill Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Shareshill
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Shareshill You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Shareshill
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Shareshill Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Shareshill
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shareshill Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Shareshill
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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Shareshill "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Shareshill
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Shareshill Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Shareshill
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Shareshill I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Shareshill
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Shareshill .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Shareshill
