To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Y Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Y
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Y "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Y
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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Y When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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) Y
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Y Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Y
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Y "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Y
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Y Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Y
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Y There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Y
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Y The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Y
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Y Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Y
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Y Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Y
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Y People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Y
