I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Ethnicity Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Ethnicity
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Ethnicity A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Ethnicity
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ethnicity Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Ethnicity
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "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) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ethnicity Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Ethnicity
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ethnicity Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Ethnicity
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Ethnicity Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Ethnicity
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Ethnicity Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Ethnicity
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Ethnicity Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Ethnicity
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Ethnicity When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Ethnicity
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ethnicity Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Ethnicity
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ethnicity Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ethnicity
