Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Dunbeath and Lybster "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Dunbeath and Lybster
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Dunbeath and Lybster "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Dunbeath and Lybster
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dunbeath and Lybster I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Dunbeath and Lybster
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Dunbeath and Lybster If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Dunbeath and Lybster
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Dunbeath and Lybster "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Dunbeath and Lybster
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Dunbeath and Lybster "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Dunbeath and Lybster
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Dunbeath and Lybster "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Dunbeath and Lybster
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Dunbeath and Lybster Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Dunbeath and Lybster
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Dunbeath and Lybster 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. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Dunbeath and Lybster
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Dunbeath and Lybster "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Dunbeath and Lybster
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Dunbeath and Lybster "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Dunbeath and Lybster
