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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Attractions It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Attractions
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Attractions When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Attractions
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Attractions A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Attractions
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Attractions "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Attractions
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia 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 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Attractions The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Attractions
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Attractions Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Attractions
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 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 Attractions "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Attractions
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Attractions Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Attractions
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Attractions When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Attractions
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Attractions The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Attractions
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Attractions America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Attractions
