We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Styles
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Styles Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Styles
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Styles In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Styles
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Styles "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Styles
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Styles We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Styles
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Styles If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Styles
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Styles If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Styles
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Styles Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Styles
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Styles Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Styles
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Styles Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Styles
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Styles If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Styles
