As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Bisley All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Bisley
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Bisley We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Bisley
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "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) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bisley The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Bisley
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Bisley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Bisley
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 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Bisley Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Bisley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Bisley Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Bisley
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Bisley Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Bisley
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bisley Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Bisley
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Bisley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Bisley
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Bisley I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Bisley
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Bisley Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Bisley
