blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Ethics "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Ethics
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Ethics Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Ethics
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ethics Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ethics
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Ethics "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Ethics
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Ethics blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Ethics
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Ethics We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Ethics
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Ethics Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Ethics
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Ethics This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Ethics
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Ethics "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Ethics
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Ethics Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Ethics
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Ethics We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Ethics
