Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Photography Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Photography
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Photography I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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
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"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) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Photography Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Photography
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Photography Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Photography
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Photography Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Photography
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "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) Photography Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Photography
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Photography May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Photography
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Photography
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Photography My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Photography It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Photography
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Photography An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Photography
