The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Photography The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Photography
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Photography "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Photography
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Photography "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Photography
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Photography Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Photography
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Photography The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Photography
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Photography Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Photography
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Photography The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Photography
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Photography "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Photography
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Photography Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Photography
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Photography Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Photography
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Photography Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Photography
