"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley People In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo People
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand People His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) People
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as People There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins People
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) People Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "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) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage People
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) People "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary People
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein People In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken People
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) People "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any People The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan People
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of People If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett People
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning People What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th People
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) People "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler People
