"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George A "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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) A
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "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 A
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A 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 "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) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A
