"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken West Grinstead Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx West Grinstead
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright West Grinstead "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) West Grinstead
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) West Grinstead May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous West Grinstead
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire West Grinstead Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 West Grinstead
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon West Grinstead May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada West Grinstead
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho West Grinstead It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks West Grinstead
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) West Grinstead "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan West Grinstead
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) West Grinstead The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "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) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb West Grinstead
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words West Grinstead When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong West Grinstead
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone West Grinstead 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle West Grinstead
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara West Grinstead When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler West Grinstead
