An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "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) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Shrewton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Shrewton
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Shrewton "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Shrewton
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Shrewton What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Shrewton
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Shrewton blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Shrewton
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Shrewton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Shrewton
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Shrewton All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Shrewton
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Shrewton 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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Shrewton
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Shrewton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Shrewton
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Shrewton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Shrewton
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Shrewton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Shrewton
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Shrewton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Shrewton
