"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Dance
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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Dance The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Dance
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Dance I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dance
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Dance Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Dance
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dance
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Dance Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Dance
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Dance My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Dance
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Dance I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Dance "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) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Dance
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "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 Dance Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Dance
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Dance When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 Dance
