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"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Halifax "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Halifax
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Halifax You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Halifax
"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) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Halifax I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Halifax
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Halifax The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 Halifax
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Halifax 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Halifax
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Halifax As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Halifax
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Halifax "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Halifax
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Halifax We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Halifax
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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Halifax Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Halifax
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Halifax "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Halifax
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Halifax The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Halifax
