Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Chapmanslade The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Chapmanslade
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Chapmanslade Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner May you never leave your marriage alive. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Chapmanslade
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chapmanslade It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Chapmanslade
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Chapmanslade All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Chapmanslade
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Chapmanslade "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Chapmanslade
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Chapmanslade Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Chapmanslade
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Chapmanslade University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Chapmanslade
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Chapmanslade When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Chapmanslade
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Chapmanslade Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Chapmanslade
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Chapmanslade Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Chapmanslade
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Chapmanslade "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Chapmanslade
