Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Parties People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "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) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Parties
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Parties If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Parties
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parties Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Parties
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Parties The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "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 Parties
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Parties A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Parties
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Parties Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Parties
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Parties We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Parties
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Parties Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Parties
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Parties "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Parties
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Parties And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Parties
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Parties "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) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parties
