"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Personal Pages Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Personal Pages
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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' "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Personal Pages It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Personal Pages
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Personal Pages I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Personal Pages
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Personal Pages Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 Personal Pages
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Personal Pages
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Personal Pages The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Personal Pages
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Personal Pages "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Personal Pages
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Personal Pages Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Personal Pages
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Personal Pages The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Personal Pages Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Personal Pages
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Personal Pages "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Personal Pages
