"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Photography If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "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) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Photography
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Photography A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Photography
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Photography "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "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) Photography
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Photography Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Photography
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Photography Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Photography
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Photography Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Photography
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Photography Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Photography
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Photography Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Photography
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Photography That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Photography
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Photography People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Photography
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Photography Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Photography
