"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Wanlockhead Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Wanlockhead
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Wanlockhead Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Wanlockhead
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Wanlockhead The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Wanlockhead
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wanlockhead Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Wanlockhead
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Wanlockhead When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Wanlockhead
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Wanlockhead "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Wanlockhead
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wanlockhead Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Wanlockhead
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Wanlockhead A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Wanlockhead
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Wanlockhead I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Wanlockhead
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Wanlockhead The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Wanlockhead
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Wanlockhead The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Wanlockhead
