"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Complementary and Alternative That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Complementary and Alternative
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Complementary and Alternative They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Complementary and Alternative
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Complementary and Alternative Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Complementary and Alternative
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Complementary and Alternative Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Complementary and Alternative
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Complementary and Alternative Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Complementary and Alternative
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Complementary and Alternative "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Complementary and Alternative
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Complementary and Alternative If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Complementary and Alternative
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Complementary and Alternative Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Complementary and Alternative
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Complementary and Alternative An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Complementary and Alternative
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Complementary and Alternative "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Complementary and Alternative
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Complementary and Alternative An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Complementary and Alternative
