"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Music "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Music
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Music Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Music
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Music Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Music Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Music
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Music Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Music
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Music
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Music Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Music
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Music "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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Music
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Music Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Music
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Music The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Music
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Music Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Music
