That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde H It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben H
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. H Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard H
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman H The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 H
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) H If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "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) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge H
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous H Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton H
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde H "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "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 H
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou H I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) H
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson H Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman H
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov H First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) H
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness H A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers H
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa H Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) H
