"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin T I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer T
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) T Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) T
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 T Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal T
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker T The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins T
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw T "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "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 only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar T
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "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) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh T "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry T
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell T .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor T
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign T Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau T
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano T 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous T A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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 T
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) T A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres T
