"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Dollar By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Dollar
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Dollar Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dollar
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Dollar Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Dollar
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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Dollar "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Dollar
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 guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Dollar Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Dollar
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Dollar To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Dollar
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dollar Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Dollar
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Dollar A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Dollar
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Dollar Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dollar
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Dollar "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Dollar
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Dollar Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dollar
