A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) U I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "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) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) U
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous U I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen U
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht U The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) U
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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard U There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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 U
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone U I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous U
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset U Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 U
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev U It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost U
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) U A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous U
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle U Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) U
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o U Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins U
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow U The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history U
