"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Events .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Events
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Events "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Events
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Events Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Events
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Events "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) 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 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Events
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Events "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Events
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Events It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Events
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Events Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Events
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Events Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Events
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Events Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Events
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Events "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Events
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Events "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Events
