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"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Domestic Emergencies Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Domestic Emergencies
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Domestic Emergencies "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Domestic Emergencies
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "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) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Domestic Emergencies "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Domestic Emergencies
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Domestic Emergencies "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Domestic Emergencies
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Domestic Emergencies What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Domestic Emergencies
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Domestic Emergencies The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Domestic Emergencies
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Domestic Emergencies Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Domestic Emergencies
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Domestic Emergencies "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Domestic Emergencies
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Domestic Emergencies "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Domestic Emergencies
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Domestic Emergencies "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Domestic Emergencies
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Domestic Emergencies The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Domestic Emergencies
