We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye News and Media Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht News and Media "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) News and Media "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) News and Media
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) What's new? Most of my wife. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex News and Media Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin News and Media
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words News and Media 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've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth News and Media
"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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, News and Media Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W My other wife is beautiful. News and Media
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen News and Media In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger News and Media
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) News and Media Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) News and Media
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau News and Media Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce News and Media
