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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Rawdon A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Rawdon
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Rawdon blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Rawdon
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Rawdon "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Rawdon
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Rawdon A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Rawdon
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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Rawdon "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Rawdon
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Rawdon Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Rawdon
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Rawdon I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rawdon
"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 is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Rawdon Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Rawdon
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Rawdon "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Rawdon
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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, Rawdon Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Rawdon
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Rawdon Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Rawdon
