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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Government He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Government
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Government Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Government
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Government Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Government
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Government "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Government
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents My other wife is beautiful. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Government Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Government
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Government It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Government
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Government A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Government
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Government Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Government
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Government The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Government
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Government "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Government
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Government 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 "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Government
