"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw BIPHA When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst BIPHA
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West BIPHA The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr BIPHA
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville BIPHA I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) BIPHA
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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 BIPHA "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) BIPHA
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara BIPHA "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 BIPHA
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) BIPHA "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard BIPHA
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer BIPHA blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) BIPHA
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison BIPHA Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "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) BIPHA
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. BIPHA A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) BIPHA
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright BIPHA Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius BIPHA
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards BIPHA Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright BIPHA
