"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche F "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 F
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde F The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich F
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) F "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) F
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 F Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) F
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "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 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) F I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "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.) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) F
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be F "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams F
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm F We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 F
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) F No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) F
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw F Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain F
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W F America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House F
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant F A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain F
