I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx G Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman G
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to G Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law G
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein G For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli G
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) G We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) G
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley G "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana G
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes G Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) G
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal G "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley G
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries G "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 G
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale G "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) G
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) G "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner G
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) 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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And G You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky G
