What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Music To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Music
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Music A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Music
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Music "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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Music
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Music If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Music
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Music "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Music
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky 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 The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Music The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Music
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Music Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Music
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "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) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Music A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Music
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Music The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Music blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Music
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Music "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Music
