Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Bewdley If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Bewdley
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Bewdley If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Bewdley
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Bewdley Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Bewdley
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "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) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bewdley It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Bewdley
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Bewdley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Bewdley
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Bewdley The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Bewdley
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Bewdley Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Bewdley
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Bewdley One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Bewdley
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Bewdley I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Bewdley
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Bewdley Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Bewdley
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bewdley 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Bewdley
