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 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Artists and Galleries 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 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Artists and Galleries
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Artists and Galleries Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Artists and Galleries
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Artists and Galleries A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Artists and Galleries
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Artists and Galleries 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Artists and Galleries
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Artists and Galleries "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Artists and Galleries
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Artists and Galleries 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Artists and Galleries
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Artists and Galleries "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Artists and Galleries
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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" Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Artists and Galleries Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Artists and Galleries
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Artists and Galleries Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Artists and Galleries
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Artists and Galleries Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Artists and Galleries
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Artists and Galleries I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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, Artists and Galleries
