I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "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) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" H "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown H
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) H This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn H
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") My other wife is beautiful. H A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston H
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken H "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho H
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein H There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West H
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead H Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele H
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack H When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson H
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov H Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human H
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) H Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) H
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant H 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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves H
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland H I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to H
