"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Belcoo Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Belcoo
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Belcoo There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Belcoo
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Belcoo I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Belcoo
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Belcoo 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 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Belcoo
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Belcoo When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Belcoo
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev What's new? Most of my wife. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Belcoo Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Belcoo
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Belcoo Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Belcoo
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Belcoo The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Belcoo
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Belcoo "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Belcoo
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Belcoo Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Belcoo
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Belcoo 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 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Belcoo
