It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Religion Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Religion
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Religion "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "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 Religion
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Religion Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Religion
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Religion I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Religion
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Religion Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Religion
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Religion If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Religion
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Religion You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Religion
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Religion We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Religion
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Religion "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Religion
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Religion I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Religion
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Religion "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Religion
