"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 A Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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 A "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will A He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge A
