I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Touch and Sensation There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Touch and Sensation
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Touch and Sensation Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Touch and Sensation
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Touch and Sensation If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Touch and Sensation
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Touch and Sensation Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Touch and Sensation
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Touch and Sensation Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Touch and Sensation
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Touch and Sensation There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Touch and Sensation
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Touch and Sensation I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Touch and Sensation
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Touch and Sensation Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Touch and Sensation
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Touch and Sensation "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S 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 Touch and Sensation
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Touch and Sensation The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Touch and Sensation
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Touch and Sensation Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Touch and Sensation
