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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Government There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Government
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Government Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Government
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Government "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Government
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Government Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Government
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. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Government The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Government
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Government
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Government Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Government I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Government
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Government A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Government
"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) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Government When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
