The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 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 Carrickmore Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "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 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Carrickmore
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Carrickmore When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Carrickmore
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Carrickmore Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Carrickmore
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Carrickmore Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "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) Carrickmore
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "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) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Carrickmore "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Carrickmore
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Carrickmore In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Carrickmore
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Carrickmore The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Carrickmore
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Carrickmore History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Carrickmore
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Carrickmore Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 Carrickmore
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Carrickmore Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks 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 Carrickmore
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Carrickmore Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Carrickmore
