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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Dorridge The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dorridge
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Dorridge Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Dorridge
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Dorridge "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Dorridge
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Dorridge They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Dorridge
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Dorridge "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Dorridge
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dorridge When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Dorridge
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Dorridge When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Dorridge
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Dorridge Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Dorridge
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Dorridge The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Dorridge
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 Dorridge Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Dorridge
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Dorridge One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Dorridge
