The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold J Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill J
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec J It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. J
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl J "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell J
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide J Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. J
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu J To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson J
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey J Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon J
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden J It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. J
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana J Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau J
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams J "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) J
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry J While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln J
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi J Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) J
