"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman X "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde X
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron X "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) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe X
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer X When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous X
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw X "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any X
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph X Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "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.) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison X
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim X Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein X
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry X If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. X
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what X "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) X
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) X 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill X
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer X Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke X
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi X The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) X
